Another iguana...

I was late to my exam today because someone ran over an iguana and didn't stop for it. It was still alive, but its back legs were paralyzed. Another girl stopped and got it out of the road, and I happened to have a box in my trunk and a number of a place where she could take it. She didn't have a cell phone so I called and got her directions and she rushed it off to the lizard hospital. It's so sad that people don't have the decency to stop and take responsibility for an animal when they injure it. Yeah, ok, fine - you don't care about animals. That's terrible thinking, but for the sake of argument, fine. That does not, however, excuse you from stopping to care for something when you are responsible for hurting it or taking its life. You intervened in that animal's life, and now you have a responsibility to care for it. I saw a quote somewhere that said, "Man becomes responsible forever for what he has tamed." This maybe doesn't DIRECTLY apply here, but it certainly applies (at the very least) indirectly. Once you play a part in something, you are responsible. End of story.

At least it's still nice to see that there are other caring individuals out there. I gave the girl my e-mail and asked her to e-mail me and tell me what they say. She said she would, and I believed her - she seems like the type that would follow up. :) I hope she is.

The truly sad thing is that iguanas are not native here. I see several of them on the roads, almost daily. They get hurt all the time, and all because "once upon a time" some irresponsible morons let their pets go into the "wild" and now we have a thriving population of non-native iguanas.

I really would like to be able to have more faith in humanity. I truly would. But it is getting increasingly harder to do so...