I am one of those people who doesn’t watch animal movies on TV. They are just too sad for me. The animal always gets hurt, lost or someone is cruel to them so I never watch. Sure there is usually a happy ending but thats not enough to make me endure the sad bits.
This used to be how I dealt with animal cruelty stories being reported in the news, the paper, or online. I just refused to read them or changed the channel. I didn’t want to know the details, they would stay with me for days and keep popping into my thoughts.
Now I make myself listen. I am still haunted by the cruelty, but it feels cowardly to turn away from the hurt animals suffer from human hands. They deserve to have their stories heard so now I listen.
Do you?
