Our responsibility is to respect and care for all living beings. This doesn’t just include our pets but all wild animals too.
This means –
* Gardening, trimming, cutting during times of year that do not disturb nests, babies, or hibernating animals.
* Creating safe spaces for wildlife around your home.
* Looking down to avoid stepping on insects and small animals when walking.
* Braking for animals crossing the roads.
* Observing wildlife, do not try to interact or get close.
* Helping domestic street animals (food, water, vet care).
* Avoid supporting venues, people, and events that use animals (especially wild animals) unethically entertainment.
* Capture insects and spiders in your home and put them outside.
* Buy cruelty free.
* Be a voice for the voiceless.
All animals on this planet need our help, our love, and our respect. It’s easy to love our own pets. It’s easy to do things for our own pets. It’s even easy to do things for domestic animals. But do you extend the same universal love, respect, and care to wildlife? Even the ones that are “unlovable” or labeled as “meaningless” (spiders, insects, worms, etc..).
It’s easier and quicker and a societal norm to view some animals as lesser value (bugs, spiders, etc), but what if it were you? These are still little souls, minding their own business, trying to survive. How we treat all animals, especially the ones others disregard, speaks loudly about the energy that surrounds us and the energy we put out into the world. It is the ultimate version of practicing “universal love”.
