A curious elephant gets a yoga ball and she will call him Squishy and he will be hers and he will be her Squishy. Surprisingly after this much squishing, it doesn’t get renamed Poppy.
I Love My Squishy!
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I was curious about her leg so I googled. Before being rescued, she was used in logging, and broke her ankle, which never healed properly, and then used for breeding and dislocated her hip from an attack by a bull elephant. 🙁
https://www.elephantnaturepark.org/meet-the-elephants/medo/
I wondered about the leg!
So happy she’s in a safe place now.
I looked up the exact same thing. That poor creature. This is a tangent, but considering how human thinking has changed over time, I wonder if, in 100 years, we’ll have extended consideration to elephants, great apes, maybe parrots and crows and octopi–we’ll have decided that their level of consciousness is such that mistreating them is a moral wrong–we’ll feel about that as we now feel about human slavery. And, if we do, where do we draw the line? There has to be a line somewhere, or I can’t swat a mosquito.
You might find it interesting to look into Jainist thought. This ancient religion promotes no harm to any living creature.
Thanks for reminding me. I knew there was a religion like that but had forgotten which one it was. Apparently devout Jains wear a mask to avoid inhaling an insect and killing it. They gently sweep their path before walking on it to avoid killing anything by stepping on it. They apparently only eat vegetables that can be removed without damaging the plant. But no other species follows those rules. We’re expecting more of ourselves than any other living thing expects of itself. Everything has a soul but we’re the only ones that can understand that fact so we’re the only ones who have to tiptoe around and be so considerate? Seems excessive. There’s got to be a line between torturing an elephant and swatting a mosquito. Though the Jains would challenge me to draw that line, and I’m not sure I can.