Cats who teach me to fly…

I was contemplating what was happening after the whole killing episode.

I’ve come to realise that…

1. We are made to believe that the bird feeders are the killers. After witnessing the whole episode, I’ve awakened to the fact that those who poisoned the pigeons were the actual killers.

2. I found that there is not even a single plant or tree that provides food for them. Basically, they depend on us for food. Food that we accidentally spill or throw away. I remember I saw them eating a packet of hot and spicy rice. I’ve observed that they even eat soil, tiny stone, dust etc…

3. We label them as pests, make them one and find all excuses to get rid of them.

4. The one who carries kind intentions by offering them food becomes an offender or criminal but the one who kills them has done a lawful thing.  It makes me wonder what kind of message we are sending our next generation.

5. People are disgusted by the birds’ droppings but nobody realise that ours are inside our intestines 24/7 which is equally disgusting. The truth is always awful but it is still the truth.

All I can say is it’s not “fair trade”! What I mean is, we could have planted food for them but we did nothing about it. The pigeons had nothing to eat but are forced to survive by scavenging food from the trash bins. In the end, we blame them for being dirty, labelled them as pest, rats with wings, diseases carrier etc… which we jolly well know none are true!

I didn’t know I was traumatised by the whole episode until I went to the same place where they were being poisoned and the episode repeated itself. The minute they were alive and hungrily eating what was fed and next, they were dead.

What they want is only to survive just like us. Is harming them really necessary? If we’re afraid of their diseases, then we should really stop eating meat because it’s a matter of when the next pandemic is going to hit us again!

In order to help myself to recover from the unpleasant experience, I gathered all the pigeons in the afternoon, told them there are people who care for them, I care and to live one moment at a time and I want them to understand I’m trying and have been trying to do whatever I can to help. I hope their presence at that moment (being alive and lively) could help me erase the inhumane episode…