I was going to write more about the fun case studies I've been a part of over the past weeks but instead I think I'm going to focus on something I've read recently. It's in an old magazine that my parents get to change the way their thinking or something. Either way, it's Positive Thinking (May/Jun 2007 pg. 48-51). I want to share an excerpt with you:
"The owner pulled the door open. A full-size horse came flying out, snorting, chest heaving, eyes rolling. His skinny chestnut-brown body was crisscrossed with long scars. He shook his black mane, and chunks of dried mud and manure fell to the ground. He stomped his feet and looked at me. 'That horse will kill you,' the owner muttered. Then those big brown eyes locked on mind and I saw a different story. 'I've had such a terrible life of pain and abuse. I'm scared,' his eyes seemed to say. 'Won't you give me a chance?'...I looked down at the fallen horse and saw what he could become if only someone helped him. 'Get up,' I whispered....He rose and faced me, then lowered his head, waiting for me to make the next move." (p.50-51)
It's stories like this that constantly amaze me. In this crazy, messed up world I'm often one to think that human beings do more harm than good on a regular basis. That we can be compared to a swarm of locusts that demolish a crop at such an alarming rate that there is little to be saved at the end of it. But it is animals like the horse in this story that constantly amaze me. Animals that have been abused all their lives and with patience, a quiet word and a lot of love you can turn the meanest animal around. I've always said that no animal is mean. They're usually scared, angry or very sick. The only creature I've ever encountered that could be outright mean for the hell of it are humans.
I want to be a vet, because I want inspire trust in animals that don't trust.
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