Adorable Baby Elephant :-)

Adorable Baby Elephant
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Written by Jennifer Kiley
Created May 30th 2013
Posted June 1st 2013I watched this video with the sleepy baby elephant. People watching her and encouraging her to get up. To wake up. She looks so adorable. The people making the video, I assume, are the ones making the sounds and talking to the precious little creature. She struggled and struggled but was having a difficult time of it. I won’t spoil any more of the video for you. I would, however, ask that you pay very close attention to the language and attitude of the those who are watching this baby elephant being so adorable. You feel yourself being drawn in. How could you not be. So watch the video. Following the watching of the video I have continued my comment. Please wait to read after you have viewed the entire video. Thank You. By Jennifer Kiley

Adorable Baby Elephant Now that you have viewed the video, think further about how it made you feel. One point I will make right away. I did not know, as you did not know that there was a mother elephant just a short distance away. The people making the video were so enjoying the baby elephant struggling to get up and that she was sleepy, so she was struggling with this dilemma, probably wondering through her sleepiness: “Why isn’t my Mom coming to help me? She can see I am having trouble. Please Mom, won’t you please come and help me. All these people are saying strange things to me. They don’t understand that I am having a difficult time and just want my mother. Why aren’t you helping me.”

Well, when the camera finally scans over to the mother, these pleas are answered for you. The mother is chained by the ankle and being kept in a stationary place where she is totally unable to come to aid of her daughter. She can’t answer her frustration and panic that might be setting in. The Mother also sees these humans talking near her child. She doesn’t understand whether they are safe or not. Her child keeps struggling and all she can do is to watch helplessly. No attendant is anywhere near by to lend assistance.

I have become quite angry long before this point. The cuteness has turned into unbelievability that the Mother elephant is chained up. Not only chained up but is unable to reach her child. The cruelty just keeps growing in my mind. This is not such an adorable video afterall. The title says: “Adorable Baby Elephant ” It is closed with a smiley face. There is nothing to smile at here. Whoever stood there and took this video and did nothing about the horror they were watching is truly amazing and heartless. Why weren’t they looking for help for both the baby and the mother who were separated and in distress.

Now some may feel I am over-reacting but I think I am under-reacting. It took me a short while after watching this video to react in the way that I have. Which is placing this video on my blog post and writing up my feelings and reactions. I hope others who see this will take this video and do the same on your own blogs or on Facebook or whatever social media that you use and spread this word. It is not acceptable to treat animals in this way. You do not chain up any elephant. You do not chain up a Mother elephant far enough away from her baby so she can do nothing to protect her. Elephants are quite maternal and protective of their babies. But that is not the specific point.

The point is we as humans do not have the right to treat animals in this way for the amusement of sadistic human beings who take pleasure in the watching of a Mother Elephant being tortured by keeping her struggling baby from her. And the people did nothing but enjoy themselves fully aware, which the viewer of the video was not aware, that there was a Mother Elephant so near but chained, but not near enough to help her baby out. Why were these people not trying to find someone to correct this horrible situation. Keep in mind also that the surface these two elephants are on is concrete. Not exactly natural to any animals.

This is a disturbing video when you know all the facts and have seen the entire footage. Yes, it has an ending that helped the baby but it never should have gone that far. Those elephants need to be placed in an environment where this can never happen to them again. By Jennifer Kiley.

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Complete Version of Camille Saint-Saens’—”Le carnaval des animaux” (Dutoit) N0. 1-7QUOTATIONS on ANIMAL RIGHTS:

“We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.” ― Albert Schweitzer

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

“The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but “Can they suffer?” ― Jeremy Bentham

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.” ― César Chávez

“Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. ” ― César Chávez

“Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us…” ― Rai Aren, Secret of the Sands