ear infection

Mommy just started her new job two weeks ago. Mommy comes home sick to her stomach with frightening stories of how the “animals” at her workplace are shot as soon as they injured their legs. They are then sent to the zoo to be fed to tigers and lions. These “animals” are considered the most expensive commodity at her company and they live with this “luxury” which could so easily turn into a “curse”. The moment their usefulness end, their life also end.

Mommy loved her previous job because it allows her to spend time with these lovely “animals”. They are the gentlest creatures around and even when they are naughty, they tug at your heartstrings. But the constant reminder of where their life is going to lead them leaves a very sour feeling in all our mouths.

This is a clear-cut case of plain cruelty to animals for the sport of men. But what happens when animals are used for medicinal purposes? When they are bred to be tested on? If we condone it, will we slowly start to accept animals being plied with untested cosmestics or pumped with drugs?

Where do we draw the line?

Poor Mommy had an ear infection just a few days ago. The doctor gave her some antibiotic droplets for her ear. Mommy told me that as she was reading the instructions on the leaflet that was included in the box, this was what she saw:

“Reproduction studies have been performed in rats and mice at doses up to six times the usual daily human oral does and have revealed no evidence of impaired fertility or harm to the fetus due to ciprofloxacin.

In rabbits, as with most antimicrobial agents, ciprofloxacin (30 and 100 mg/kg orally) produced gastrointestinal disturbances resulting in maternal weight loss and an increased incidence of abortion. “

— CIPLUS eyedrop

Now, I know Mommy has been suffering from the ear infection for a couple of unbearable days and I completely sympathise with her (eventhough I have never fell sick in my life or ever had to take any medicine except for those meddlesome ticks). But but but… how can anyone test something so hideous on some poor unsuspecting animal?

I would never have tried my homemade remedy on any unsuspecting humans, we animals have instincts (the greatest gift God gave us) which tells us what kind of grass to chew on when we are having a tummy upset. We just base it upon trial and error and we put God’s gift to use instead of relying purely on science.

Daddy made a very good point the other day. “We have screwed up the universe so much we are now desperately trying ways and means to undo what we have done by constantly inventing new machines and drugs. It is now a game of catching-up.”

Mommy is now caught between discarding the bottle versus reducing the infection. On one hand, she is a strong advocate for non-animal testing (SO AM I!) but then again, is it okay because it is for medicinal purposes? For the greater good of mankind?

But when has mankind ever thought of us animals? When will it be for the good of Gaia or anyone else for that matter?

I just gave Mommy a little nibble to remind her that she should be more adamant about doctors prescribing non-animal tested drugs.

Mommy, I still love you, and I hope your ear infection gets better.

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