Be Kind To Animals Week.

This week is a special week. It is Be Kind To Animals Week. The American Humane is promoting this to help educate children about animals and why we need to help them and be kind to all animals, not just our companion animals.

Yesterday, I stopped and moved 2 turtles from the middle of the road up on Fairview Ridge. One was a Snapping Turtle. The other was just a box or "painted" turtle. I had my big, brave Chance dog with me, and you would have thought that Godzilla had come to life. He absolutely is terrified of turtles. We walk in the Powell Wetlands alot in the spring and summer and if he comes across a turtle, he will tuck his tail and run behind me and peep around my leg at it.

One day, I was walking him up there and I saw this big rock, or so I thought. As Chance and I got closer, this "rock" rose up on four legs and started to walk! It was a huge Snapping Turtle. Just as I got Chance's attention, he spotted it out of the corner of his eye. He actually squalled out and ran around me and tried to stick his head between my legs to peep at the turtle. Oh yeah, big, brave yellow Lab! Ha, Ha......

Just remember to be nice to everyone and everything and then you have nothing to worry about. Now, if we could just get the rest of the world to follow suit.