Young Animal Lovers!

Last week, I received a manila envelope stuffed full of drawings from a class at Port St. Joe Elementary School in Port St. Joe, Florida. Their teacher, Traci, had been teaching the students about animal and horse rescue and about Volunteerism to help out animals in need. She used Shiloh as an example of a horse rescue, a place where horses can go to be cared for and helped. After learning their lessons, the children drew the following drawings for the Shiloh Horses and for all of our hard working volunteers!

These are so wonderful, I just love them and I know you will too. This is only a few of the many that I was sent- they are all beautiful works of art and we can't thank the students enough!

This brings to mind a ridiculous phone call I received a few months ago from an "Animal Liberation" person (her words, not mine). I was informed that animals should never be used as "props" to teach children, all animals should just be able to live their lives doing anything they want to do. While I do agree that animals should have way more rights than they do, I absolutely do not agree that animals cannot be used to teach children about kindness, respect and compassion. I know that sometimes animals are the only beings that can teach someone these important lesson. Because we treat all of the Shiloh animals with respect, children can, and do learn how to treat them the same way.

I think that these beautiful pieces of thoughtful artwork from these young students demonstrates that very thing more perfectly than I ever could.