Bardot Loses Nina - For Readers in Paris
This is most unusual for me, and I seriously doubt it will do any good, but you never know...
If there are any readers out there who live in Paris, and who would like to help Brigitte Bardot, her eleven-year old mixed breed and the mascot of her foundation, Nina, wandered away in the neighborhood of Trocadéro on New Year's Eve. They've been hunting for her ever since. The dog is said to be easily frightened. Bardot feels she may be crouching somewhere, hiding out of fear, thus making it even more difficult to spot her. A reward is offered.
Please consult the website of the Bardot Foundation for more information. You may want to download the poster.
In my neighborhood, there are always new posters put up of lost dogs and cats. I avert my eyes. It's a sensitivity that has always been with me, from childhood, and there's nothing I can do about it, despite my efforts to become hardened to such things. Some aspects of one's nature cannot be altered at all. I still have the feeling that when I die I will see all my animals again. It's something I can't shake even though I recognize the irrationality of it.
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posted by tiberge @ 2:29 AM
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Thank you very, very much, Tiberge, for posting this, especially for overcoming the sensitivity in order to do so. I do completely understand. Hopefully this new push to get an answer will bring a result, and your help is much appreciated.
In the public domain, BB is one of the few courageous people in France, not only for animal rights since the early 1960s at least, but equally for speaking up in defense of our culture, and she has paid a heavy price.
It would be nice if she could be given some peace or resolution for her little dog. As to your animals, I hope it will be a long time from now, but have no doubt you will see again the ones with which you shared a strong bond--if all of them, then all. They may well be around you now in any case. It is not irrational--we are all spirits after all.
P.S. - Here is a link to one of BB's last interviews on Télé-Animaux.
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=N5TnHVqP3iw
@ dauphin
I saw the video. She is quite different from me. I almost avoid animals. Right now I have one cat. I've usually only had one at a time. This may seem strange, but one is all I can handle. My last cat (before this one) was actually my mother's. I inherited her when mother became ill. Then mother died. I took the cat to the vet for a check-up and they found hyperthyroidism. They treated it with radioactive iodine. Six months later she had diabetes, and for two years I gave her insulin shots twice a day, until she died - in my arms. They injected her with the lethal dose, while she was eating baby food on my lap. It was horrible. They found that her pancreas was totally abscessed. Later the autopsy revealed she had pancreatic cancer. Caring for her was a full-time job. I don't know how Bardot does it.
I've known people with multiple cats and dogs - up to twenty cats!
My mother was able to care for multiple cats. At one point she had four.
But I can't. For me it's one - I know it's not fair to the animal who needs a playmate, but I have to be the playmate.
(BTW - I don't recommend radioactive iodine for hyperthyroidism. Look at what happened - they zap out the thyroid, and then the pancreas becomes diseased. And all that insulin did no good - it just kept her alive, but it never cured her. Insulin never does. Diabetes is a symptom of something else, so to try to "cure" it is futile. I also don't like the way they treat cats with human medicine. Cats are not made like people. Dogs respond better to "people" medicine, but not cats.)
I agree with her about bringing exotic animals into the home. It's a selfish, uncaring thing to do. It should be banned.
I remember reading long ago that her family did not like animals. So I guess she had to leave home to have her pets. We always had a dog or a cat (or both) when I was growing up.
I think she feels completely capable of caring for her animals, she has no doubts about her ability. She feels herself to be their guardian, almost "appointed" to the job by fate. Doris Day also felt this way. It's a mission you are born to (as she points out).
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