Photo by Phyllis Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis still immersed in yesterday’s post about the cougar cut in half on the railroad tracks in Adams County.
Kickass responders speculated that the reason the heart and lungs had been removed was to prevent the identification of bullet fragments, and there was also the suggestion that the odd circumstance smacked of the work of Secretary of Health RFK jr., given his off-the-wall history with wild species.
Meanwhile, on the subject of human’s relating to other species, the Public TV channel aired a show about how one caring young man used his family feelings to demonstrate the reasons for saving the declining Ocelots in Texas.
Earlier, the keeper read a lengthy account of how the Bureau of Land Management program regarding wild mustangs is being manipulated to turn would-be adoptions into profitable routes to horse slaughterhouses. There are an estimated 73,000 wild horses in the US with the BLM goal to reduce that by 20,000 this year. As it now stands most of that reduction will be made in Canadian slaughterhouses, since horse slaughter is illegal in the US.
Among the many professionally done photos of Phyllis’ that the keeper admires, his favorite is of a band of wild horses in Teddy Roosevelt National Park. It makes the point that while it is not always possible from a practical standpoint, the best way to share space with another species is to take its picture and hang it on the wall where you can see it wonder how that other species is doing.
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