Is it Trump’s inaugural day or the beginning of the end?

It’s Mom’s 76th birthday so I sent her a silly JibJab card of her in a loincloth singing Hear Me Roar, by Katy Perry and I cried.

 

All day I’ve had this oppressive weight on my chest that feels like the days leading up to a hurricane, when I can’t take a deep breath without feeling the impending doom, or in the days following 9/11 when it just felt like every news story was going to announce the end of life as we know it.

 

All day the headlines have been talking about how within an hour of taking office Trump had deleted all official reference to climate change.  Our Director of Outreach, Jen, had been trying to locate all the new Environmental Committee members who deal with protecting animals or the environment and was told, across the board, that the new appointees don’t intend to have a person in that role.

 

I just don’t know what kind of world this may become if our leaders are not inclined to protect the very infrastructure that supports all life on this planet.

 

Then there was just the insult to injury issues such as the attorney for Kenny Hetrick getting all nasty with me and demanding that I comply with her Ohio county order requiring that I let that man and his minions come onto our grounds.

 

Ms. x,

 

I am easily accessible via our website.  Anyone can find my email or cell phone number there, for that matter.  People so rarely spell my name right that I typically use [email protected] instead, so it's a little obnoxious that you are making so much of nothing.

 

As for the Hetricks visiting, I am not convinced that your local order has any authority over the way I do business.  I've seen the conditions the Hetricks kept these cats in and my opinion of them is that they are publicity hounds with no interest in the wellbeing of the cats.

 

There is no release form that I feel would adequately protect me from a slip and fall type "accident" that the Hetrick's might file, just to keep their names in the press.  Under my USDA license, no member of the public is allowed behind the barricade, so I couldn't let them close to the cats, even if I were inclined to do so.

 

For the cats,

 

Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue

 

"Judge me by the enemies I have made."  - Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Hi, I’m Carole Baskin and I’ve been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/

 

I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.  

 

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Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk