Feralpeg
Living and Loving Windermere!
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Well, I finally snapped. Since I spend so much time on Disney property, I see all kinds of things that I think are just wrong. I'm basically a non-confrontational person, but I just couldn't walk past this.
I was at DTD today. I was walking past Once Upon A Toy when I noticed a little boy chasing a little lizard. He was trying to stomp on it. The boy appeared to be about 4 or 5. He'd already pulled off the tip of the lizards tail. I stopped and said "Please don't do that. You'll hurt it.". He just continued to go for it. So, I said "No. Don't do that. It's alive and it has feelings just like you do.". The boy just stared at me. As soon as I started to walk on, he put his foot on top of the lizard. I went back and said "I told you No. Don't do that."
At that point, many people were looking at us. I probably looked pretty stupid as I tried to get the lizard who was by now very traumatized to move over to a protected area. Another family walked over and asked me what it was. I told them it was a little lizard. The boy was still there. I said "Don't step on it". The other family told me they wouldn't do such a thing. I explained that the little was trying to kill it. The lizard finally went into a protected area and I moved on. I never saw a parent for the little boy.
I was surprised that the kid's parent didn't come over to find out why I was yelling at their kid. DD suggested that perhaps the child did not speak English. He did look Hispanic. I told her that No is No in both languages and that he understood what I was trying to tell him just by my actions.
I will let a lot of things go, but torturing an innocent creature is not one of them!
I was at DTD today. I was walking past Once Upon A Toy when I noticed a little boy chasing a little lizard. He was trying to stomp on it. The boy appeared to be about 4 or 5. He'd already pulled off the tip of the lizards tail. I stopped and said "Please don't do that. You'll hurt it.". He just continued to go for it. So, I said "No. Don't do that. It's alive and it has feelings just like you do.". The boy just stared at me. As soon as I started to walk on, he put his foot on top of the lizard. I went back and said "I told you No. Don't do that."
At that point, many people were looking at us. I probably looked pretty stupid as I tried to get the lizard who was by now very traumatized to move over to a protected area. Another family walked over and asked me what it was. I told them it was a little lizard. The boy was still there. I said "Don't step on it". The other family told me they wouldn't do such a thing. I explained that the little was trying to kill it. The lizard finally went into a protected area and I moved on. I never saw a parent for the little boy.
I was surprised that the kid's parent didn't come over to find out why I was yelling at their kid. DD suggested that perhaps the child did not speak English. He did look Hispanic. I told her that No is No in both languages and that he understood what I was trying to tell him just by my actions.
I will let a lot of things go, but torturing an innocent creature is not one of them!
