assignment 13- Ryan Collins

I have had a re-occurring dream (well it is more of a nightmare than a dream) for the past 5 nights. They all start out the same way: I am sitting in the good food coop, which is weird because I should be shopping for that new cereal bar line they just released made of dried tree bark and imported African dung. Anyway, i am sitting in the middle of the store, adjusting my many rope bracelets, when I see it. A human being, walking alongside another fellow life traveler; except the human has the other being bound tight by the neck to a thick, worn rope, which he tugs violently and frequently to dictate where the innocent soul should walk. Sadly, this nightmare doesn't just linger in my dreams at night; it is a real issue in this messed up world we live in. I constantly have to hold back tears and rage induced insults as i cross paths with a family of four as they further strangle their "pet" pug. It makes me sick that we live in a world where you have a career of killing innocent animals, and putting them in camps as they wait for their inevitable end. something needs to be done. Until animals can get the same jobs as humans, not be discriminated against, and have the inalienable right to own property, then we citizens living in the "home of the free" are as free as a dog being locked up in his kennel for peeing on a persian rug, an action protected by the United States Constitution. All animals should be treated with the same respect we treat each other with, and only then will we all truly be equal.