"Love your Companion
Animal - A Lifetime Commitment "©
As
a developed city in Asia, Hong Kong has gained its reputation of having
a boosting economy especially in the financial industry ; and over the
years
the overall living standard and GDP of Hong Kong has grown significantly
during the past decades. However, the standard of respecting bio-diversity
is
not advancing in the same pace as the economic growth. The traditional
Chinese belief of " Anything with its back facing the sky is edible
" is still
dominant in some old villages in the New Territories area. Last winter,
we, Companion Animal Federation , has rescued quite a number of black
mongrels who were in the fringe of being a menu on the table.
As
our name " Companion Animal Federation " suggests,
we educate and urge the importance of a harmonious human-animal bond
by first taking the notion of asking our members to " Stop
Calling Animals " Pets ".
The
word " Pet " in English is adequate but its direct translation
in
Chinese becomes a discretionary word, which suggests a sense in inferiority
and,
very often than not, carries a sense of a mere quest of love at the expense
of the owner's interest. Once the animal owner loses any interests in
animal,
they will be foresaken. Animals at our homes are in fact companions.
Animals are animals and animals are never " discretionary ". All live
forms are as
precious on Earth and animals can be our friends and family members.
It is time for us to learn how to respect life and bio-diversity before
we finally
lose the colours of nature when various species of animals come to
their extinction because of human exploitation.
We
live up to our own goal of respecting life via our belief of loving one's
own companion animal with a life-time commitment. We are glad to see
that there are many adopters who adopt animals with their hearts during
our Rescue Visits. We hope that many more people in our community will
share our belief of
" Why should we buy..... When those
in rescue centre die " ©
in the long
run.
We also hope that one day there will be needless to re-parent any
more companion animal in Hong Kong.
Companion
Animal Federation keeps on promoting and
encouraging community services with contribution by animals. second chance. We are working our way through more proactive
educational compaigns and we are doing our best to maintain our non-profit making facilities for the provision of
animal rescue and animal welfare service.
Finally
we sincerely hope that the seed of broad-mindedness,
compassion, endurance, forebearance in our community will grow
stronger and stronger despite the recent economic hardship
that Hong Kong has experienced. We consider it is only with
respect , sympathy and understanding that our community will
turn to be a more amicable place to live.
More
InfoĄG
Should you require
more information please feel free to call us atĄG
(852)2146 4363 , or email us at caf@hkcaf.org.
Thank you.
Companion Animal
Federation
Jul 13 2002 |
