Despite going through and having endured all the pain, pigeons continue to thrive. Their legs are often entangled by strings that we litter till their legs break apart. I can imagine the pain but I can’t imagine the resilience and endurance the pigeons are suffering. Today, I still see pigeons with strings tightly tied around their feet. Some are swollen. They limp and sadly, I am not able to catch them. I’ve helped to untie the strings from two pigeons. One couldn’t survive and another was being rounded up. The fate of the two pigeons with only one foot (as we can see on the video and photos), they too couldn’t escape the trap. In the end, all had to die in the cruel hands of humans. They were gassed to death because they were dirty… because they’ve dirty our places and because we don’t like them…
They have caused completely no harm to us. It was our own selfishness that caused them so much suffering even to the end.
Perhaps we should look into ourselves again and again and ask ourselves if we want to cultivate a mind that want to kill and cause harm to others or to live generously in every way. That will bring peace to others as well as ourselves.
Life is very short. On my deathbed, I wish my mind could be filled with loving kindness. Always having a mind that benefits others and wanting others to be happy. After all, pigeons or rats, cats or dogs, pigs or elephants, fishes or humans, we all live in the same land, thrive in the same land and suffer very much the same like the animals. Doing good to others is being kind to myself. This is what I want for my life. A meaningful one!
Please support using humane measures to control pigeon population. Below link is the petition to end pigeon culling.
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