Monday, October 6, 2008

Who wants to live forever?

The worst thing about living with animals is that their lives are so much shorter than ours, which almost inevitably means that we are faced with losing them. The one positive in this is that your average human lifespan accommodates a number of companion animals. One passes away, but there is room to give a loving home to another animal.

This week a colleague forwarded me an email describing the way a six-year-old justified the short lifespan of animals: (apologies to the author/s - there was no credit on this)

