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Originally Posted by katex
Not a bad thing to understand the food chain Less, but I was not impressed at all by what your dad did 'cause reading between the lines they were treated as some sort of pet.
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=Less We had an allotment and my brothers, sister and I were all responsible for looking after a rabbit each
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Sometimes katex reading between the lines doesn't always get to the truth, as I said in the above quote,
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were all responsible for looking after a rabbit each"
The allotment was used to bring up a variety of animals, chickens, geese, rabbits, the occasional turkey.
The responsibility was I think, to teach us that we had each to make sure our rabbit was well cared for and even loved right up to the point when it was it's turn to go to the pot.
Although I didn't follow in my fathers footsteps and get an allotment for myself I did bring my own children up to be grateful to the animal that had given it's life so that we could enjoy our Sunday roast.
The many pets that they had were also kept with the best care that they could supply and thanks to this particular example I was able to pass on to them the respect my Dad had for
all his animals. (He would sometimes be upset himself if when it came time for a particular favourite of his to be slaughtered for the family).
