{"id":922,"date":"2011-05-04T20:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/?p=922"},"modified":"2013-08-30T01:27:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T15:27:58","slug":"the-sweetness-and-cruelty-of-ducks-crossing-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/2011\/05\/the-sweetness-and-cruelty-of-ducks-crossing-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The sweetness and cruelty of Ducks Crossing the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driving back from my parents this morning traffic was all jammed up along the main road. I poked my head out of my window to see what was happening when I saw momma duck and her little child <\/strong>waddling across the road.<\/p>\n

I was touched by the sweetness of traffic stopping to let such an important part of nature go by.<\/p>\n

I then thought of how I knew someone once who purposefully swerved across the road to run over a small\u00a0defenceless animal, thinking it was a fun game.<\/p>\n

What sort of a tortured soul would do such a thing<\/strong>? How must committing such a creul and callous act play on your conscious? Surely it would have some sort of an impact.<\/p>\n

\"Animal<\/a>

Sweetness of animals<\/p><\/div>\n

I remember driving home on the back country roads from work in the US one afternoon when suddenly I heard a loud crack and a rise and fall of my wheels.<\/p>\n

Instantly I panicked, knowing there was something I had hit. I looked out my rear view mirror and saw a turtle rolling \u00a0across the road.<\/p>\n

I started to cry<\/strong>. And I cried the whole way home so devastated I was that I had hit that little creature trying to walk safely across the road.<\/p>\n

How could anyone ever do that on purpose?<\/p>\n

But then again, I don’t think twice about swatting a pesky fly, smacking a biting mosquitio or terminating a dirty cockroach<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Why is it that we feel okay to harm and kill these animals but not those that are a little larger and look a little cuter?<\/p>\n

Does it only become callous and cold when we kill them just for sport and because we have nothing better to do?<\/p>\n

One thing is for certain, human beings are the most complicated animals to ever try and work out.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s Feeel Good Friday. 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