It has been a bit of a grind these last few days. Not that it has been very busy but it has been a lot of time up late sitting around checking on colics getting IV fluids. They have done well so I guess I should be grateful but I would rather be busier doing different things than just being up late but not really doing much but babysitting. I have been paying close attention to the “restoring honor” gathering in Washington DC that Glenn Beck organized. It is interesting reading the different articles written about the event. Most of them skillfully try to dissect what the people there are doing and their motives. Most try to paint them as racist and deranged people but when I watch the footage that are ordinary and quite boring people to be honest. I can help but think how much the church has changed Glen Beck and how much of a difference it has made in his life. He is a great example of what enlightenment through the Holy Ghost can do to someone who is lost in life. He has really gotten good at praying and receiving answers to his prayers. It really makes me and so many others do as he did and look to God for answers to todays problems. What I can’t decide is whether he will be successful in his movement to return peoples lives to Christ or if he will be one of the voices that will be extinguished in the period before the Second Coming. I hope it is the former rather than the later.
I had an interesting day at Shiloh Horse Sanctuary and Rescue last Monday. It is the clinics biggest client because it has somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 horses that are mostly either crippled or diseased in some way that people either tried to sell them at auction or they were surrendered directly to the rescue. It is located in Sandy Valley which is about 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas on I-15 and then a right turn out into the desert for another 20 miles on a lonely road that climbs into the scorched hills and drops down into a dusty valley surrounded by hills completely. In the middle there was an oasis-like clump of buildings and trees of a small sleepy community and off to the west on the slope up the hills was a bright emerald green block of land with a few buildings that is a large alfalfa hay operation. It is amazing what water can produce in even the harshest environments. I looked around for roads that climbed out of the dusty bowl but except for a couple dirt roads that wound off into the distance in to the hills the only road in or out I could see was the one we came in on. We drove through the town to the opposite outskirts and visited a small horse facility to look at a horse with a bad eye and then we went to Shiloh. Shiloh was started and is operated by Tony Curtis’s current wife and her mother and a countless hoard of mexicans. I saw pictures of Jill Curtis recently with Tony looking exactly like Marilyn Monroe but these days with the addition of a few pounds she is quite ordinary looking but still tall and has a very kind yet strong presence while her mother Sally is shorter and even kinder in gesture and disposition and originally I mistook her for a friend instead of a mother because they appear too close in age. Shiloh is an large piece of land covered with mesquite and geriatric horses, ponies and burrows bought from auctions all over the west, dogs rescued from the pound, and an assortment of pigs, goats, llamas and alpacas, and other farm critters. We did a lot of lameness work, worked on teeth problems, froze tumors, and put down 4 old horses that have been wasting away recently due to disease, pain from lameness, or just old age. What they do there is truly honorable and I am sure God approves and will reward their charity to his creatures. We definitely need more people and places like this in on Earth. But even though they intent to do the most they can for animals in my opinion they make a mistake by some of their ideology. Every week they turn away over a dozen horse owners who want to surrender their horses to be cared for but they don’t have the room or ability to care for them so the owner should put them down but don’t allow them to be slaughtered. It is probably true that if they had the resources they would like to save all animals but where they go wrong is when they tell the owners they they cannot slaughter them. Slaughter is a bad word for doing the same thing as having a veterinarian come an put them down. It is one of the controversial topics for vets today because the AAEP and most vets that work with horses think it would be best if there was a way that horse could be put out of its misery if its quality of life is not good buy humanly killing it and harvesting its carcass for consumption whether it is eaten by Frenchmen or dogs. The current legislation to prevent the killing of horses for human consumption in the US does not care about all the poor horses out there who suffer unnecessarily. It is wrong to force someone to not put a horse out of its misery or even tell them that they shouldn’t because once the horses is dead the carcass should be used and not wasted. They don’t oppose the killing of horses they only oppose the eating of horses which in my opinion is only imposing your ideology on others which shouldn’t be done. You can’t and shouldn’t save them all because they shouldn’t suffer for your ideology.
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