Person’s attitude to animals and nature can tell lots about him. Bitter cold in a special way tests our compassion, sensitivity, and humanity.
“The second condition for happiness is love,” said Serhii Krymsky.
Where there is love, there is no place for cruelty.
Winter is always some kind of a test for humanity.
Will we give our children’s books and toys to orphanages or will we make a holiday for somebody else apart from ourselves and our families, will we make others feel warm in all senses of this word?
In the past frosty days those “others” not protected from the cold in warm homes especially need attention of people passing nearby.
On the website of the shelter Mercy of the Lviv Animal Protection Society there is an instruction on how anyone can save a dog, a cat, or a bird from death.
“At such temperatures animals are doomed without aid from people,” said activists.
A lot can be said about a person judging from his attitude to animals.
The same is true for nations. In the early December The Day (Ukrainian edition of the newspaper) published the article “Dogs: Humanity Index.”
How did a country that cried over the film White Bim Black Ear turned into a space where there are “Auschwitzes” for animals?
It had a lot of feedback from the readers.
Some expressed their solidarity in actions.
For example, Kyiv Weekly organized an auction dedicated to its 10th anniversary and the money they gathered were given to Hostomel Animal Shelter.
It is always pleasant to come to the Botanical Garden where there are birdfeeders on nearly every tree.
It is nice that parents bring their children there, because humanity, tolerance, and mercifulness are formed in childhood.
No matter how full technology the world will become human features in each one of us is the basis without which the world can not exist.
An element of culture, which, as Russian writer Lidia Chukovskaya once wrote, belongs to us to the extent we belong to it.
