Usksider's Photo Blog

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...to go out and enjoy the changing colours we see around us.

Occasionally we get the chance to compare like for like.

Or maybe just compare colours.

At other times we're treated to 'foreign' bodies when we least expect them.

How can people be so cruel?

I’ve spent a lot time walking this last few days and have seen some really beautiful things; unfortunately I’ve also witnessed something that turned my stomach... fret not readers, no images on this occasion... I wouldn’t subject you to the visuals.

I was following a public footpath through a dense wood when a flash of colour drew my attention from the path. I immediately stopped and carefully turned to see the rear end of a fallow dear disappearing between the trees; bugger! How could I have been so unobservant not to spot it sooner?

In desperation I carefully picked my way into the depths, hoping to get another glimpse. About 25 metres off the path I stumbled onto something that stopped me dead in my tracks; the almost complete skeleton of a young canine. My first thought was a small fox that had come to grief. How sad.

A few paces further revealed the disgusting truth; some bastard had hobbled a bitch to a stake and left her with her pups to starve to death. You didn’t need to be a forensic expert to work out what had happened.

I like to think I have a fairly strong stomach, but in my present depressive state I not only lost my breakfast I also shed many, many tears. How anyone could be so cruel is beyond me. How frantic the poor animal must have felt is also thankfully beyond me...

I’ve never been a big fan of the human race and this experience only bolsters my disgust of some of our number. A nation of animal lovers? Well not everyone, obviously!