Audrey Jolly
Animals Have Souls Too
One thing everyone knows about me is this: I love animals. All animals. No matter what kind of animal it is, it brings me joy and happiness. I used to work at an animal shelter throughout high school and I would spend hours on end there, taking care of the puppies and dogs and cats. There was even a small animal room with birds, rabbits, ferrets, and guinea pigs. I really didn't mind all the dirty work, like cleaning kennels and cages. But there was one litter of puppies that just made me the happiest girl in the world.
They were young black Lab mixes, only 8 weeks old. And they would whine and cry and bark unless I sat in the kennel with them, and I'd let them climb all over me until they fell asleep. And one day, it was bath day. After I gave one puppy a bath, which he despised, I wrapped him up in a towel and dried him off and held him close to me until he stopped whining and went to sleep. It was the cutest, sweetest thing I've ever experienced and only deepened my love of animals.
Besides this brief, yet touching moment with the puppies, there are many stories of animals who demonstrated love, affection, and heroism. For example, a female gorilla in a zoo, who saved a 3 year old boy who had fallen into her concrete enclosure. And Christian the lion, who was raised by two young men. After they released him back into the wild, they went back many years later, and Christian returned, wrapping his big paws around them. And we see a dog's exuberance when greeting his military owner after he comes back from deployment. All of these things show that animals do have the ability to show love and affection. Even though they cannot express it in words we understand, animals demonstrate love nonetheless.
Besides this brief, yet touching moment with the puppies, there are many stories of animals who demonstrated love, affection, and heroism. For example, a female gorilla in a zoo, who saved a 3 year old boy who had fallen into her concrete enclosure. And Christian the lion, who was raised by two young men. After they released him back into the wild, they went back many years later, and Christian returned, wrapping his big paws around them. And we see a dog's exuberance when greeting his military owner after he comes back from deployment. All of these things show that animals do have the ability to show love and affection. Even though they cannot express it in words we understand, animals demonstrate love nonetheless.
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