PETS BANNED IN RIYAD - People Who Hurt Pets Hurt People

It’s a well-known fact that a very large percentage of people who end up doing heinous things to other people started out on animals. A very accurate measure of a person, male or female, can be construed by how they relate to pets and animals.

In my experiences dealing with animals through my business I have found there are basically three kinds of people when it comes to relating to animals.

1     The person who loves animals.
2     The person who is afraid of animals
3     The person who ignores animals

I give a person who loves animals much more credence because they love animals even if I donn’t particularly like them.  If the same person was afraid of animals I don’t necessarily hold it against them because I have seen people who were afraid of animals do a 180 once they met their soul mate animal. Many times they become animal activists. Like born again smokers.

It’s the third category – people who ignore animals that scare me. People who shoo dogs or cats away and treat them as chattels are the same people that you should take great care with because they’ll shoo you away too. I’ve learned this through my business dealings. If some one I’m dealing with ignores my dog and treats her like a pest we usually end up not doing business.

People who ignore animals and mistreat them will ignore and mistreat you -which brings me to the reason I’m writing this. An article in the Los Angeles Times with the headline:

PETS BANNED IN RIYAD.

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice want to ban the sale of dogs and cats as pets (what else do you use them for a comes to mind immediately –but that’s another article) and arrest people for walking their pets with penalties of fines and confiscation of the pet. They’re afraid men are using them to make passes at women and pester people – which is really stupid because men always make passes at women and pester people.

The whole country of Saudi Arabia or at the very least The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice falls into the category of people who ignore animals. That’s the scary category. Maybe we should look at the Saudi’s a tad more carefully.  I just don’t trust or like people who condone the mistreatment of animals – for any reason.

I personally was outraged by the article, which I think should have been on the front page instead of page six. It infuriates me anytime I learn of animal abuse especially animal abuse condoned on a national level.  How would you like to be living there? As Count Floyd used to say, “Pretty scary kids!”

In gambling it’s called a “tell” and if you don’t read it properly you lose. It’s the same with the information in the Times article.

I know Saudi Arabia is our “partner” in the “war on terror” and a staunch friend of the current administration but think it would behoove us to remember:

People who hurt pets hurt people. That’s all.