Animal Triggers
Animal Cruelty is happening more and more and as we live in a technological age, it is sometimes very hard not to have it staring you in the face when you are connected to social media.
Yesterday was one of those days. As I am connected to Dingo on a level that is not able to be expressed in words I was tagged in a link that had to do with Dingo being used in an experiment to kill off feral goats on an island off the Queensland coast. Wild Dingo that have been placed on Death Row as it is a crime to be a Dingo in Queensland.
The Dingo were to be put on an island so they could use their predatory nature and kill off Feral Goats. These Dingo were to be castrated and injected with a time bomb of 1080 poison which was expected to give the life expectancy of the Dingo of two years – if the experiment didn’t work, the time bomb would go off and torturously kill the Dingo – in any case the Dingo would die a horrible death within a two year period.
I was absolutely furious that this should even be allowed to happen, what logically thinking human being would even allow this to take place. My animal instinct got the better of me, and I was on the attack and was going to ring and write to whomever I could that would put a holt to this barbaric practice.
I wrote a damming email and addressed it to as many Animal Activist and Government Agencies that I thought would listen. As I went to press the send button, I stopped. I needed to see what was the truth behind me being so triggered by this event.
What was the specific action being shown to me that made me so wild?
Was it the killing of the goats?
Was it the use of the Dingo or their castration?
What was it?
I sat, got really present and listed all the things I saw that triggered me. None was more prevalent than that of the injection of 1080 poison – a time bomb of chemical toxicity – and the slow tortuous death of the Dingo.
As I had this realization, I then looked at where and when I put into my body a chemical cocktail that is like a ticking time bomb that would see me dead in a couple of years.
How was it that I abused my body in the same way?
Was it coffee?
Sugar?
Not drinking enough water?
Not eating enough leafy greens?
Was my diet balanced?
I kept listing and listing until I could own that I was guilty of the same thing, not only to myself but also the animals in my care – what was I feeding them that was like a time bomb to their system.
When I did that, I could fully own that I too at some level, was guilty of the same thing, I was able to be fully present, conduct research and find good quality arguments against what they were doing and the pitfalls to the environment if they went ahead with their plan.
I was able to go back and rewrite what I wanted to say in a professional manner and articulate it in a language they could understand, rather than it come from some crazy women who was just getting up them for their lack of foresight.
Having taken that time I have had a great response from those who I contacted who have now put into action finding out more information and try and see what they could do to get it stopped.
When you are triggered by such a thing and have such an emotional response, take a close look at why and what it is that triggers you and own it within your own life.
The animals are counting on us to come from a place of love and not from triggered moments of hate.
