Comments on: Stranded dogs, cats rescued in flood-ravaged Iowa town

By: JAGS

JAGS — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:45:10 +0000

Animals are smarter than us.
To bad they don’t have possible digits.
Think they would run things much better than we do. They wouldn’t treat us the way we treat them.
We’ve taken so much from this planet and we’ve put back nothing.
It’s no wonder our environment is collapsing.
It may take thousands/millions of years, but mother nature will recover. We humans won’t be here though.
We are killing our soil,water,air,and ourselves with fertilizers, heavy metals and toxins.
We are making bad bacteria stronger than the good bacteria.
Without good bacteria, nature is out of balance, without balance there is destruction, just watch the news..

By: Caleb

Caleb — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:46:04 +0000

Very true unfortunately. Feel bad that they were able to escape their demise, swim such a distance to save themselves only to be shot by some ignorant humans. Yes pigs are very intelligent, just because the majority of Americans eat them doesn’t mean they deserve the life they have or are even dumb. Studies have been done to show the intelligence of pigs to be that and/or superior to dogs. Would you shoot your pet dog trying to save himself?

I understand the reasoning, at least hopefully the shot was instantaneous and they did not suffer cruelty, which they would if they had made it to slaughter.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:29:10 +0000

The pigs would be better off being shot on the levee than rounded up and sent back to the hog farm for future slaughtering. Hog farms in Iowa are a major environmental pollutant and are exceptionally cruel to the animals.