Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006 10:17 P.M.
Simple Saturday Not much going on here this weekend. Brittni came home from her week at camp. She is my soon -to-be 14 year old granddaughter. She went with her church group to upstate New York. Funny how we call Bangor, Maine, northern Maine, but everything north in New York is referred to as Upstate Anyway, she was there all week and had herself a ball. It was the longest she has ever been away from home. She had called a few times, but for the most part she was too busy. They told her at the end of the week that they want her to take the course to be a camp counselor. That means that next year she will stay for 8 weeks but she will get paid for it. She is already looking forward to it. She loved the island, the people and the camp. I asked her today if she missed her mom and she said �A little�. Then I asked her if she missed me and she said , �Ya, a little.� I said, �You�re just saying that to make me feel good.� Then she said the most diplomatic response I have ever heard. �No, I�m not. It�s just that I would have missed everyone more, but I was so busy, I didn�t have time.� Quick thinking on your feet, Brit. Terry and I were watching TV this afternoon, (ya, what a surprise) and there wasn�t much on, so we were surfing and happened upon a show called, When Good Pets Go Bad It showed various animals that flipped out on their owners. One segment showed circus elephants. I couldn�t get over the footage they showed. The animal behaviorists said that the only way you can train an elephant is by breaking them and that they only follow orders out of fear. I won�t describe the ways it showed them accomplishing this. Just know that it was more than inhumane. It also showed a man that had a show down south where he had alligators. After pulling the alligator out of the pool, he would poke and prod the beast and then hold his jaws open and stick his head in his mouth. Well surprise, surprise. It clamped his jaws down on the guys head. It wasn�t even an intentional thing. The guy had done it many times, but this time a droplet of sweat dripped onto the alligator�s tongue and it bit as a reflex. I think that I would have done it intentionally if someone had treated me like that and then been stupid enough to stick his head in my mouth. Keep your mind out of the gutter and your giggles to yourself. All this made me realize the absolute inhumanity of zoos. Even if the animals are well fed and cared for, they are still taken out of their natural habitat and put in a cage. I�m not going to jump on a pet@ bandwagon, but I don�t think I will be going to any more zoos. I got this from acaldwell. Thanks Art. | Your Career Personality: Original, Devoted, and Service Oriented | 
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