THERE IS NO LOGIC
OR REASON FOR CRUELTY TO A NON-HUMAN SPECIES
Photos courtsey of Mackie,
The Gabriel Foundation, and Shauna
Mackie, Umbrella
Cockatoo
Burned with cigarettes. and sprayed with bleach; tortured by humans.
Shauna --- "Mackie is an ambassador, a true testimony
to an incredible spirit
that was rebuilt through his own strength and the love he received
through TGF."
For details of Mackie's story click the link below.
Mackie is now at The Gabriel
Foundation rescue sanctuary.
"We need another
and a wiser, perhaps a more mystical, concept of animals. Remote
from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man
in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his
knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image
in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for
their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not
be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours
they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the
senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall
never hear. They are not brethren. They are not underlings. They
are other nations -- caught with ourselves in the net of life
and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the
earth."
