Trying to think Positive

 "In a wartime truth is so precious that it should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Churchill                                                                                  There are good and bad days. Spring should be a happy season, more sun and happy faces? You wish, Rising prices, various products difficult to find on the shelvings, everybody grumbling, or so it seems. What makes it worse, there are shameless greedy guys willing to misuse the situation to fill their pockets, or should I say, bank accounts, through phantasy full tricks, e. g. a "baker" buying large quantities of subsidized flour, storing it, waiting for rising prises. He didn't even possess the equipment to bake bred. Fortunately he got caught and several more with equal criminal energy. Among various other medical products anesthetic became difficult to obtain for veterinarians and other doctors. Now a van with 30 vials of Katamine was discovered in Hergla toll station. This product is a powerful anesthetic illicitly used as hallucinogenic drug. In Sfax garbage disposal has become a problem, the citizens there hope that the government will help as the town appears to be overwhelmed, with rising temperatures regular collections, no "wild rubbish dumps" are essential to avoid health issues. The temperatures in the south of the country are not surprisingly much higher than in the rest of the country. Nonetheless in particular the folks down there, in various areas, have to live without  tapped water, for several days, e. g. Redeyf. Heaven knows why the water works cannot find a solution. In this day and age there must be plenty experts available. Not enough funds? Other countries not willing to help?- I see a cute little boy with lovely curls, Europeans would envy him for this. Strange, the mother keeps being "adviced" that she should let him have a haircut, that "looks cleaner" , in addition he could loose weight that way..... wonder why he should? I see among the new kids and youngsters many skinny, legs like a stork. Haircuts like prisoners, the new fashion? Certainly not my taste, why can't folks be happy with what nature provided them with and worry about bad manners and habits instead of giving stupid advice? A young boy in front of my house throwing stones at cats. As he doesn't except being told off (being brought up without borders, without basic values), he received a slap. He threatened to inform his parents and was told please do and bring all your relatives if you like. It's a chance to meet the ignorant family. When the father arrived, he was no surprise. He had no problems with his son abusing animals or causing damage to houses (we have had a lot of this) "He is a child....." One of the most stupid sentences I heard here. If you want your son to become a criminal one day, with a heart of stone, let him grow up wild, don't teach him empathy, respect and love of nature and animals, allow him to believe that he will always get away with murder. One shouldn't be surprised when members of such a generation beat their teacher, who is no longer regarded as a person deserving respect. A man arrives at the vet's with a bird that he accidentally injured with his car, he left his card and stated he will cover the costs to heal the poor bird. People like him give me hope. But anyhow, we urgently need animal protection laws, the whole country would profit. 

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Ramadan, Spring & Changes

 "A clever man doesn't make all mistakes himself, he also leaves the chance for others." Churchill.                                                                                                      Ramadan is supposed to be a holly month, but unfortunately this doesn't prevent some from committing evil crimes to innocent animals. While the Quran states that a perfect moslim respects and protects animals and nature, they feel a strange urge to poison, shoot, etc. beautiful, mainly gentle cats and dogs. How can anyone say it's haram to spay and neuter them, yet believe it's okay to create hell for Allah's (God's) creatures and brutally murder them? Normally one can see several cats near garbage containers, serching for food. Most of them have disappeared near where I live. What happened? A gruesome explanation I have been told: immigrants from some subsahara countries kill and eat cats and dogs, or abuse them for obscure witchcraft methods. This is of course against the law here and shocks the population. Horrible thought, hope it can be stopped. Nonetheless, in Europe I never viewed such gorgeous cats. Unfortunately this doesn't even protect them against being kicked out whenever it seems to be more convient. I wonder whether such folks would be prepred to do this also to other family members? Anyhow, I could never rely or trust such guys. In my opinion they shouldn't have children, what values could they possibly teach them? In Sousse the poisoning of cats by some disturbed guys continues, in Djerba dogs are tricked into cages so they can be caught and murdered, absolutely sickening. I continue to pray for education of the ignorant and harsh animal protection laws.  Will it be included in the new constitution? That would be fantastic. We need patience, improvements happen, but slowly. Gentle bitch Leika is limping lately, did she spay her back leg? No, as my husband immediately suspected, stone throwing hooligans caused the injury. I shouldn't be surprised, when I asked the kids to be more considerate, stop their constantly yelling, I had a stone thrown at my head. - Lovely Jasmina brought her kitten, Sunflower, maybe 3 weeks old, to stay with her behind my barrier, between my plants. She knows there is water, food and protection. I will do my best. One of Sunflower's eyes closed, when Jasmina briefly left, I cleaned the kitten's eye with Physiol solution and then used Unigenta for treatment. From time to time various medications are not available, e. g. at present Oxytetracyline (excellent for cats' eye treatment) and antibiotics, "maktur". Today Jasmina allowed me to repeat the procedure for her baby's eye. Good, she trusts me, makes things easier, still, nothing to be taken for granted. Members of my big cat family sometimes fight among each other, just like humans do as well, 2 have got an eye injury, Alien and Tarecca. The later worries me in particular as she's got only 1 eye (result of an accident). The vet thinks her eye can be saved, among other medication she prescribed Antibiotic eye drops. Couldn't find it in various pharmacies, then I remembered that I bought it not long ago following my own eye injury, so that's luck, in addition my other medication turned out to be usefull as well (checked with the vet). My biggest present is having all cats and our puppy doing fine. The end of Ramadan is lately celebrated with fireworks. Folks say it's a tradition, but it isn't actually, too new habid for that. Poor people buy plastic toy pistols and firecracker for their kids, sadly they don't consider buying books instead. "No money!" They argue that this is what their children desire, they possess so little knowledge, yet like to constantly talk..... very strange. Anyhow, those stupid firecrackers make our puppy nervous, he still gets his panic attacks, not very helpful. No use talking to the kids, they don't give a dam, respect, consideration and empathy many don't learn in their families arround here, unfortunately. Instant revenge they consider their right. Spring means more sunshine, some rain and nights not quite as cold, thank heavens for that. Had enough of all that sneezing, running little noses....  "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch without doing anything." Albert Einstein