{"id":2133,"date":"2015-05-27T08:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T08:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2018-09-24T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:04:04","slug":"dogs-dogs-and-more-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/archives\/2133","title":{"rendered":"Dogs! Dogs! and more Dogs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2015<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2136\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images-3.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2136\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Oh! Isn't that cute! I can leave it where it drops, the leaves will cover it up.\" width=\"258\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh! Isn&#8217;t that cute! Such a thoughtful dog, we can leave it where it drops, the leaves will cover it up.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>NEWS FLASH! \u00a0New terminal disease discovered which is killing the population. \u00a0It is fatal within two hours of a human becoming infected. \u00a0Scientists have found the cause &#8211; the huge amount of animal fecal matter spreading rapidly and piling up across the world. \u00a0The main spread agent &#8211; dogs whose fecal matter turns into this rare form of disease when expelled. \u00a0No cure found! \u00a0Babies under one year are the most susceptible. \u00a0Humans on earth are confounded. \u00a0Hospitals are not overcrowded because people infected with this new dog caused disease die before reaching the hospital or a doctor!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere you go there are people with their dogs. \u00a0Some on leashes, some running free, all peeing and dropping their fecal matter on the sidewalk &#8211; in the gardens around the trees &#8211; everyplace except where it is supposed to be dropped. \u00a0Some people pick up their dog&#8217;s crap. \u00a0Some don&#8217;t. \u00a0Some pick it up and drop it on top of their neighbors garbage cans or in another neighbor&#8217;s garden. \u00a0Most humans are pretty thoughtless about other people and are only concerned about their own comfort and convenience.<\/p>\n<p>This was a pretty emotional breakfast. \u00a0So many feelings about all the dogs multiplying, increasing exponentially in a society which still has homeless and young children without enough to eat &#8211; no one to care for them &#8211; needing clothes, education, comfort and love. \u00a0None for you, my lovely and needy children, it is all going to the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>WHY?<\/p>\n<p>Our little band of temporary friends decided it is because dogs worship humans. \u00a0A self-absorbed society adds to its self-absorption by bringing in an animal that gets happy when it sees its &#8220;master&#8221;; wags its\u00a0tails strongly to show how happy it is\u00a0to see this human being who feeds them, etc; \u00a0gives companionship in a master\/servant kind of way and will never try to become an equal; and the biggy &#8211; isn&#8217;t going to stage a revolution for its freedom.<\/p>\n<p>What would this world look like if all the money and other resources being spent and lavished upon dogs were spent and lavished upon those who are in need. \u00a0Is that enough to end poverty? To end homelessness? to end children on the street selling their bodies for a meal and a roof over their head?Buy a dog or adopt a child!!! \u00a0Take care of a dog or help a family take care of its children!!! \u00a0Spend tons of love and care on dogs or spend tons of love and care on humans in need. \u00a0We have clearly made our choice &#8211; the dogs win. \u00a0The humans think, care, act! Dogs just worship!<\/p>\n<p>It is much harder to deal with your own kind than to deal with a group you have designated as less than. \u00a0That master\/servant relationship isn&#8217;t going anyplace. \u00a0It is firmly in control of most of us and we seem to not be able to stand on our ethics, our principles, our own two feet and we especially don&#8217;t want to be inconvenienced or put out in any way. \u00a0We won&#8217;t even pick up our own servant\/dogs poop &#8211; or dispose of it properly. \u00a0For every one person who does, there are at least 10 who don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2137\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2137\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images-300x150.jpeg\" alt=\"His new teeth cost a fortune, but it was worth every penny!\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images.jpeg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">His new teeth cost a fortune, but it was worth every penny!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So what is the answer? \u00a0We couldn&#8217;t find any. \u00a0Get this dog problem under control and we will probably only be able to do so by putting another situation in its path that will turn into something worse than what we are now experiencing. \u00a0Everybody at the table, including those with dogs had a horrible dog story to tell about a neighbor, a friend, a relative and that persons dog.<\/p>\n<p>While we talked at breakfast about the incredible number of dogs every place you turned, doing damage to human life and health, we were in a dining room with a window which looked out on the street and we counted twelve (12) dogs going by with their owners &#8211; and this in less than an hour. \u00a0The dog owners stopped in front of\u00a0the tree which was surrounded by lovely flowers. \u00a0That was a clear signal to the dog &#8211; pee and crap now and in this spot. \u00a0The dogs simply walked into the flower bed, encouraged by its &#8220;master&#8221; and peed. \u00a0We were sure that flower bed would soon be barren. \u00a0 As it is, the flower bed was bedraggled from the dog traffic and our host didn&#8217;t want to go out to continue to cultivate it after watching all the dog pee going into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to dog owners claims &#8211; dog pee and dog fecal matter are not garden fertilizers. \u00a0They are garden destroyer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2138\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images-2.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2138\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images-2.jpeg\" alt=\"They can't be talking about me! But I am so cute, anyone would be proud to have me lick their face!\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They can&#8217;t be talking about me! But I am so cute, anyone would be proud to have me lick their face!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What does it do to the human spirit and the human soul to lavish all of the resources now being spent on animals and ignore the need of humans who are going hungry &#8211; are without basic shelter &#8211; have no way to get out of their current tragic existence. \u00a0How would you feel in those circumstances sitting on the sidelines watching pampered pets go by? \u00a0We have more compassion for &#8220;rescue&#8221; dogs than we do for another human being. \u00a0We talked &#8211; finally &#8211; about seeing friends getting all misty-eyed\u00a0when they see a dog in need and turn hostile when they see a human in need. \u00a0There is something basically wrong here and we are clearly not dealing with what is missing in the human spirit which allows this and blind-sides us to our part in this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>When you die will it be your dog who greets you with its tail wagging or will it be the humans you denied because of your inability to face your own mortality and morality?<\/p>\n<p>======================================================<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/donation-page\">Learn More About How We Use Your Donation!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[give_form id=&#8221;3763&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to join us?<\/strong> Have a home that you want to open to become one of <strong>Bettina Network&#8217;s Hedge Schools?<\/strong> Call us and lets talk &#8211; or email us.<\/p>\n<p>Ed. 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