The End of the Year

Well....  We did not see world peace, the end of communism or socialism.  We did not find a way to make every person on this earth happy and responsible.  We still have people living below "the poverty line" and people who are mega-rich.  We have had a lot of disasters strike all around the world.  ....  It's still our one and only inhabitable planet.  We need to take better care of Mother Earth.  We also need to stop puppy factories; to stop killing critters for their skins, pelts, noses, tusks, and bones; to stop killing unwanted or unloved pets.  We need to spay and neuter all of our pets.  We need to be certain that each critter we share our life with is loved, fed, cared for, and given appropriate medical attention.  -  As a whole, we, people, need to become more mature and responsible for ourselves and others.
And I want to share this small article by Martin Griffiths of the Associated Press:
" Federal land managers have agreed to postpone their precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada pending a federal court's review of the issue.   
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's action came a week after a coalition of conservationists and wild-horse defenders sued the government in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to block the plan's implementation.Under a compromise approved by the court Thursday, the agency will be allowed to begin a long-term removal of roughly 1,800 wild horses from the sprawling Pancake Complex near Ely beginning about Jan. 12 as scheduled.
But the BLM agreed to put on hold its plans to castrate 200 wild stallions before releasing them back to the complex.
Horse activists think the court will rule in its favor."

                     *** Lovey, Nedi and I hope you had a wonderful 2011...
                            and that 2012, the New Year, will be even better. ***