We have so much to learn.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.

- Mahatma Gandhi

I was reading these two post entries from this Blog.
Entry#1: Observe how they treat their "lessers" and
Entry#2: Counteracting objections (to allow pets on MRT).

Somehow or rather, after reading those entries, i felt Singaporeans can be rather unfriendly and mean towards animals, especially strays.

Especially from the article in Entry#1!
(Below is part of the article i find myself really disgusted)

Pet-unfriendliness in Singpaore extends beyond transport companies to the individuals. I have seen some people exhibit irrational fear and disgust towards creatures so much smaller than themselves.

I have seen young boys who kick their balls towards harmless stray cats and dogs. These animals would have given the children a wide berth if given a choice, but do not have such privileges.

I have seen parents egging their children to chase after and terrorise strays; even pets are not spared in some cases.

Is this the kind of values that we want to pass to our future generations? Even writing about this makes me fume.

- by Jason Woo, Content Producer, CND New Media
21 Aug 2007

OMG, if i know any adult who does that, i would be utterly disgusted i wouldn't know how i would actually react!

I mean, even if you really dislike animals and all, just ignore it, unless if the animal like terrorizes you right?

What, you live in kampung ar??
Moreover egging your own children to be cruel and unkind! OMG!

I shudder to think how your children will turn out to be.


So anyways, as i was saying... i felt Singaporeans can be rather unkind and unfriendly to animals after reading the entries above.

However, if you consider the lengths of those people in Singapore who are helping the stray cats community, fostering the cats, paying from their own pocket for GOOD FOOD for the cats, and not just any supermarket-brand which are actually bad for the cats...

The stray cats there actually live a good life! Fat cute ones!!

Not forgetting paying for the sterilizations (spaying) as well... something most Malaysians refuses, not even for their own cat or dog, because they live in zaman kuno and feel like doing that is "cruel to the animals".

I especially admire how they are actually buying good food for the cats, its not cheap, but for the cats health in the long-run, they just went ahead!! Not forgetting those cats are NOT their own cats, but rather, stray cats, or their own community cats!!!

I do know that there are loads of owners who are not even willing to invest in good food for their own pets, even if its beneficial, but will just proceed to get cheap supermarket brand, which is actually bad for the pets health in the long run!


Well, Malaysia may have loads of kind and compassionate animal lovers, like seeing a poor animal they'll help and all, but somehow i feel Malaysians will never want to waste that extra buck for animals, not even for our own pets!


It takes all types to build up a society! Eitherways, we still have a long long way to go!