How beautiful, a beautiful wedding outside, to finalize matters a group of white doves is released into the air winging rappidly into the sky, sun glimmering on their wings.  End of a perfect addition to the wedding or funeral, a social event but not for the doves.  Bred strictly for beauty and color, they are not homing pigeons and as the bride and groom turn away already they tire from lack of flying ability.  They flutter to the ground, hearts pumping, fearful, trembling.  These birds have no Lone Star Card and cannot feed themselves.  They will not return home or find safety in the trees and bushes. They are domestic animals bred for sacrifice. Some will fall prey to animals such as domestic cats and dogs, others will starve or be so disoriented they die of fright. Hawks and birds of prey kill the defensless birds.  What is supposed to be a symbolic gesture turns into a carnage for the birds.   Recently a friend plucked one from the jaws of a dog and spent months patching it up and saved its life.  Next time you go to some churchy affair think about the animals, think about the birds and their ultimate end of life destined by people who think ‘pretty’.Along the same line of thought the balloons that are filled with helium and festoon cars on sales lots and empty apartments all go someplace and come back to earth and clutter up the environment. We have found quail tangled and dead in the strings and certainly turtles eat them thinking they are food all so we can have pretty ascentions for a brief moment in time.

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