Just watched 'Marley & Me' yesterday, a very touching movie & i cried till the end. Why so? The story is about a columnist, Grogan and his family's life during the thirteen years that they lived with their dog Marley, and the relationships and lessons from this period. Marley, a yellow Labrador Retriever, is described as a highly strung, boisterous, and somewhat uncontrolled dog. He is strong, powerful, endlessly hungry, eager to be active, and often destructive of his owner's property (but completely without malice). Marley routinely fails to "get the idea" of what humans expect of him; at one point, mental illness is suggested as a plausible explanation for his behavior. However, his acts and behaviors are forgiven,and being accepted by the family of his owner and love by them so much.
Ironically, today when reading the MalaysianToday, the first article came in view is the one entitled ''Banished’ dogs dying of hunger and thirst~ The Pulau Ketam strays dog'....hmmmm, what a coincident. Comparing to Marley in the movie, Malaysian dogs really are in inferno, lot worse than hell especially those in the Pulau Ketam. Of course, this is being exposed as now everyone are talking bout it. After watching the movie n reading the news, i need to really clear my head off as i keep thinking is it really possible for a person to really love the world worst dog unconditionally like what Grogon and family did to Marley? I believe yes.
I love dogs, but i woundn't want to hav one as i'm not confident that i'll be able to really take good care of them and give them enough love as they need, it is really a huge responsibility and commitment. It is weird as we tends to treat animal as animal, particularly Asians. Even many loves dogs, to them, a dog is still a dog, the consep of treating our own pet as part of the family has never been impose into our mind..... Many may have dogs, they might carry it in and out by holding it tightly or carry it in a pretty bags or cages, but is there actually any feelings or bonding between the owner and pet relationship? Do they really love or care for the pet? or it is just like Paris Hilton, dogs r only an ornaments to her fashion?? Recently from my surrounding, many treat having dogs as a trendy life style and with the amount of money they spend on getting some 'pure breed' branded dogs, it also show off their financial status. Sadly most of these people, when they get bored with their money bought pet, they will just simply dispose of the dogs which will ended topping up the Malaysia stray dogs population..... sad...sad...sad....
When needed, they r man's best friend; when not....see what happened around, strays r not hard to spot for in Malaysia, i just bumped into 3 early this morning looking for food in our apartment rubbish disposal area, must be fr the quarry nearby, they r being left to guard the quarry, a whole bunch of them, but food? chiak ka kee.....haiz (Photo grabbed fr Wikipedia)
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