By Victoria Chamberlin
It”s hard to decide what to respond to when you read all of the changes coming about in our area. Somehow, there has to be a change where our priorities are not based on money.
After reading the article on the welfare of our wildlife from now on, it left a sick feeling in my stomach. We haven”t come very far in our society I”m afraid. We come to a pristine area full of native wildlife and we build in it and we take from them and then we give them absolutely nothing in return for protection or basic care of living creatures.
Wow! How do we look in the mirror? Every single person living in this area should be writing the board of supervisors to say this is not acceptable. They need to cut some place else, to at least allow animal control to do pick ups, to have a fund to help hurt animals, to take them to the veterinarian or pay the cost of euthanasia.
This is a basic right these animals should have. When their injuries are a direct result of our actions, we owe them the responsibility of caring for them. It must sicken Sandie Elliott to know, after all the years she put in, that her county just threw its hands up and took no responsibility for any of the wildlife. There is something very basically wrong with a society that places any life at such a low level of care or concern.
Victoria Chamberlin
Lakeport
