After our work around 7:00 pm, I carry some bundles of packages to be delivered as our sideline jobs. While walking to the bus station, I encountered a tiny snake who was trying to cross the street. I realized that the tiny creature couldn't reach across because of too many vehicles that passed by. I tried to change its route back to the side where it came from. I took my camera and tried to light the way for it and took some pictures.
While leading the snake to the safe side, some old lady noticed me and saw what I did to the snake. She told me to kill it? The only words that came out of my mouth were “I can't“ while directing the snake.
Later on as I leave since the snake got his way back, while walking away from it, the woman calls someone in their house to find and kill the tiny snake. I just could not make any move to defend it since it's a snake; of course it's deadly, and I don't know if this kind of species could be venomous or maybe not.
I'm not an expert in reptile species. So to end the story, as I was leaving the place, I could see a sad life story of that tiny snake being killed for no reason, or maybe it had for them.
Kindness to Animals Required of Man
The following incidents occurred while Zion’s Camp was on the march from Kirtland to Missouri.
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| I took some closer look it's so tiny and beautiful |
Kindness to Animals Required of Man
The following incidents occurred while Zion’s Camp was on the march from Kirtland to Missouri.
In pitching my tent we found three massasaugas or prairie rattlesnakes, which the brethren were about to kill, but I said, “Let them alone—don’t hurt them! How will the serpent ever lose its venom, while the servants of God possess the same disposition, and continue to make war upon it? Men must become harmless before the brute creation, and when men lose their viscious dispositions and cease to destroy the animal race, the lion and the lamb can dwell together, and the sucking child can play with the serpent in safety.” The brethren took the serpents carefully on sticks and carried them across the creek. I exhorted the brethren not to kill a serpent, bird, or an animal of any kind during our journey unless it became necessary in order to preserve ourselves from hunger. (May 26, 1834.) DHC 2:71.
