To the editor: Former President Trump’s use of the pejorative time period “vermin” also can hurt animals. Creatures like mice and rats are clever, resourceful people simply attempting to make an existence and care for their households.
And if an animal looking for meals and shelter occurs to be inside a home or workplace constructing, it is simple to escort them again and preserve them there by utilizing humane stay traps and sealing all holes and cracks. There is no such thing as a want for cruelty – or vitriol.
These of us who’ve had companion mice know that they’re light, loving animals who lovingly “groom” human fingers and luxuriate in fixing puzzles to earn a deal with. Rats are meticulously clear, kind shut bonds with their human keepers, and giggle when tickled.
Rats and mice deserve, like all residing beings, kindness and consideration in actions and in phrases.
Michelle Reynolds, North Port, Fla.
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To the editor: Thanks in your editorial on Trump’s contempt for folks like me.
I consider myself as a son, a brother, a husband, a good friend. I used to be a scholar, trainer, volunteer, patriot.
Now I’m studying that I’m thought-about a “bully”. That I needed to be rooted out. All as a result of I oppose the previous president’s vitriol, his views, his vicious assaults on his opponents.
I am not going wherever. I hope for a return to decency, to normality, to widespread sense. It could possibly’t occur quickly sufficient.
Robert C. Pavlik, St. Louis Bishop