Am I strange or unfeeling? When I watch that coverage of the Santa Barbara fires...

[Mike 03]

What made me cry was not the pictures of the homes burning, but the pictures of that lush forest burning, because I was picturing all the animals that were being burnt alive, and all the babies, the baby birds, the quayle babies, the javelina and their families...

It's baby season. Animal parents and their babies depend on things remaining stable during May.

Maybe I'm cold or something, but I'm happy human beings made it safely out of their homes and took their pets with them, but my heart bled for the animals in that beautiful forest. That is such precious terrain, and it was so painful to watch it burn.

I'm getting too sentimental at my old age.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Not at all

I have walked through still smoldering prairies after a brush fire.

I have seen and smelled the singed flesh of prairie creatures who tried to escape the flame front.

It is heartbreaking.

[Thickasabrick]

2. I'm glad there are still people like you who thinks about them. That's

usually where my mind goes too. I put a wild turtle back in the forest today that some little kids had found and I think about to torture. I told them that that was how Jeffrey Dahmer started out and they wanted to know who that was so I told them he grew up and started killing young boys and eating their brains. I then told them to go ask their parents for more details. I doubt I'll be invited to the neighborhood block party.

Anyway, I'm just glad some people still think about how things affect the wildlife that we all take for granted.

[KitchenWitch]

3. I am a terrible person. I am absolutely numb to the SB fire thing.

I am on overload right now, and I just can't feel anything about it. Could be my PTSD.

[XemaSab]

4. There are no javelina in Santa Barbara...

:hide:

[applegrove]

5. I find myself really cold these days. I think it is my medication. I should be crying

at times..things have gone badly or someone died... but I can't cry. I don't like it at all.

[Shell Beau]

6. I always worry about the animals. I was so upset during

Katrina.

[Beaverhausen]

7. I worry about animals too, but I think a lot of them know when to get out of the fire's path

of course, many don't and it is really sad to think about what they are going through.

On edit- my fiance had a house fire about 9 years ago, so I have a sense of what the people are going through, too. You can replace most "things" but there are many that you simply can't.

Seriously, hardly a day goes by, nine years later, that my fiance doesn't mention something he used to have that was "lost in the fire."

[Flaxbee]

8. same here.

I do feel sorry for people losing their homes, but the animals and the forests bother me the most. Humans can usually adapt to a disaster better than other creatures do.

Click here every day - I start at the animal rescue site and click through, it's a small thing but maybe some habitat is saved: www.theanimalrescuesite.com

I have to shut myself off from thinking about things like that or else I'd go insane. You're not alone.