Animal life disrespected

The brutal, hideous bludgeoning of Canadian seals; Idaho’s despicable desire to start a hunting season for wolves; and Spokane’s atrocious assault on yet another innocent creature, fellow companion and inhabitant of the good Earth, the ground squirrel, reflect an abhorrent lack of reverence for life, respect for the beauty of nature, and moral and ethical principles that define a people of conscience.

How many ground squirrels inhabit our parks, national parks, national forests, meadows, grasslands and fields? Must they all be “Rodenatored” because of their inconvenience to the few?

The disgusting rationalization by Finch Arboretum officials and workers are the same commonly heard ravings of these who are incapable of understanding what Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer meant when they wrote, respectively, that, “The greatness of a nation, and its moral progress, can be judged by the way it treats its animals,” and, “It is man’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”

You have disgraced yourselves, your city and all people of conscience. No longer does Spokane merit the title, “Near Nature, Near Perfect.”

Fred Bardelli

Osburn, Idaho