“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
Despite petitions, letters and calls pouring in from people around the world, it appears that stubbornness and inbreeding is going to override common sense and compassion in Holley, New York and the senseless squirrel slaughter planned for the middle of this month by the local fire department will be undertaken with, if the comments from locals are representative of Holley’s 1,000-odd residents, obviously uneducated, pridefully ignorant cruelty.
It just breaks my heart. I don’t know the source of this photo, but for every asshat in Holley, New York, as well as those hanging out in Albany who are in a position to do something about it but continue to look the other way, this is how real firemen act:
