I love Adzhar Ibrahim’s articles. I’m a fan of his wit, humour, perceptive insight and mastery of the English Language. I don’t think he has ever written about animals, or least, I have not read any, but here’s one today: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2023/01/15/its-live-and-let-live-for-cats-and-dogs-in-cairo/
From the article:
Cairo’s street animals certainly look better than their caged brothers and sisters in the pet shops, which is such a cruel abomination (adopt a stray, people!). And in the craziest of all city traffic, where I’d have expected the roads to be littered with dead animals (and people), I didn’t see any in the many days I was there.
Loving animals in my books means loving all creatures great and small, beautiful or ugly. Actually, the very idea of beauty (or lack of) is totally irrelevant when it comes to animals. Animals are animals, and even a slug or a snake or a crocodile is beautiful in its rightful place in nature.
As En Adzhar puts it, just live and let live, please.
Even if you don’t like them, please don’t harm them or do anything that will cause them harm. Just leave them alone.
Do not call the council. Please.
This earth belongs to them too.