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RUSH: Snerdley brought in a little bird. He has pet birds, and this is a parrotlet, the tiniest parrot that there is, and he\u2019s named the bird Stumpy. It\u2019s the cutest little thing in there, and apparently he has two other birds, and he mated the two other birds, and Stumpy got caught in the nesting material, and the two other birds, to save Stumpy\u2019s life, they amputated his right leg, it looks like. So Stumpy\u2019s running around with one leg. Well, he\u2019s hopping around with one leg. Snerdley brought him in today because it\u2019s bleeding a little bit and he wanted to watch him and he\u2019s got him in this little cage and I was in there looking at this little bird, and Snerdley started talking about how amazing it is to watch these animals do everything they can to live, and it got me to thinking. I have my little cat Punkin, but I had another cat that was a blue Abyssinian, and that cat\u2019s name was Bonnie, and Bonnie was born not healthy. She had all kinds of problems, and eventually died at age five of a stroke. Her hip wouldn\u2019t stay in joint and she didn\u2019t have a tear duct in her right eye so it was always draining and so forth. <\/p>\n

I remember one day I took the cat to the vet to have the hip joint looked at and the vet said, ‘Look, you gotta keep the cat quiet. The cat can\u2019t go up and down the stairs, just keep the cat quiet.\u2019 So I got one of these little baby things that you block the stairs so little kids can\u2019t fall down. And the vet said, ‘Now, give this cat this pill, little Valium, cat Valium, because we gotta keep her quiet.\u2019 So we did and the cat fought it like crazy. It was the most amazing thing to see. The cat would jump off the bed, I\u2019d say, ‘Oh, no, you\u2019re supposed to stay on the bed,\u2019 and it would just look at me and start weaving like it was drunk, trying to get to where I was, just fighting the effects of this thing. It just exhibited a 100% will to live, which is, of course, what life is. Life exists to live, in whatever form that it takes place, be it animal, a human being, a plant, or what have you. That\u2019s the great thing or the mystery about life is how its whole purpose is to sustain itself. We humans, we get to have fun in the process of doing that, sometimes, but the animals, of course, they\u2019re just following instinct or whatever. <\/p>\n

Every time I\u2019m looking at Snerdley\u2019s little bird in there — and you could put it in the palm of your hand, it is that tiny — but that bird, it doesn\u2019t know anything other than it\u2019s trying to live. Every living organism has this. It has this innate will to live. And when you see that, either in an animal or human or what have you, and then you contrast that to the whole abortion movement, which it really is, the people who are suggesting that some people shouldn\u2019t live because of the circumstances they\u2019re going to be born to and so forth, you look at these little animals, and, especially pets, they\u2019re just the essence of innocence like little babies are. You can learn a whole lot about nature and instinct if you just watch. I\u2019m sure those of you who have little animals that have been hurt and so forth know exactly what I\u2019m talking about, same thing with little babies. So just a little observation here. I\u2019m like Snerdley. I marvel every time I see these kinds of things right in front of my eyes. <\/p>\n

When you see an animal give birth or a bird hatch from an egg and you watch the miracle of life actually happen right before your very eyes, how you cannot have a profound, almost sanctified respect for it is beyond me. It\u2019s sort of like I heard the other day some scientists — and for the sake of the story, we\u2019ll accept that what they discovered was true — they said the edge of the universe, which, of course, is strange because the universe is everything, how can it have an edge? But, nevertheless, the farthest star in the universe from us eight-something-billion light years away. Now, that\u2019s a size that we humans cannot comprehend. And how anybody can hear that, go outside at night and look at the stars in the sky, how can anybody believe it\u2019s just coincidence or an accident is beyond me. I have the same reaction when I look at Snerdley\u2019s little bird in there. In fact, when I first saw Snerdley it was during the break. I walked in there and he had Stumpy in the palm of his hand and Stumpy was just clinging to his shirt and so forth. Just the cutest little bird, my heart melts, folks, it just does, especially since the bird\u2019s hurt in there, and Snerdley says he hopes he lives. You really don\u2019t have any doubt he\u2019s going to live, do you? You do? Yeah, well, I told Snerdley I\u2019d love to get some birds but Punkin would just go absolutely berserk. Can you say dinnertime? (laughing)<\/p>\n

In fact, my grandparents, when I was like six or seven years old, we had a little dachshund named Dodi, and my grandparents had this parakeet named Pepper. Somehow Pepper got out of the cage, and the dachshund found the bird and it was just over. We see this at six or seven and I remember my little cousin, who\u2019s two years younger, running around the house, ‘Dodi\u2019s eating Pepper!\u2019 It was so sad. But that\u2019s animal rights, instinct was just being followed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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