TAC Student Visit the Adana Animal Shelter
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated”.
Mahatma Gandhi
TAC’s Science Department teachers, along with their students who have big hearts and a genuine love for animals, visited the Adana Animal Shelter on the first Saturday of March. Our students watched the puppies playing with each other. We were all excited as the newborn puppies barked carefreely next to their mother. We also made some canine friends who followed us wherever we went. At the end of the visit, we delivered the blankets that we had bought to keep the dogs warm to the officials.
We were also deeply moved and saddened by what the staff told us. They said that some people called the officials to pick up cats and dogs on their streets, just because they did not want to see them. Many of the animals had been hit by a car or they were very ill. We have, indeed, seen many street animals sent to the shelter for these reasons, and we found out that many experience trauma, and some die, because of this.
It is an unfortunate fact that as we go through adulthood, we slowly lose our love for animals which we had as children. We not only lose our empathy for them, but we may even go as far as neglecting them in our daily lives. However, there are so many things which we can learn from them as the true owners of this world!
Under this community outreach project, led by our science teachers, Musa Avşar and Handan Şahin Duran, our students, Gülümser Aslı Kütük, Zeynep Ekin Yaycı, Aybeniz Ece Komitoğlu, Alpay Özküçük, Lal Toraman, Ayben İpek Kodal, Esat Tuna Erdağı, Düzgün Can Güyıldır, Melisa Aykurt, Ayşe Sıla Kütük and Elif Bilge Akça, completed a fun, caring and emotional visit to the Adana Animal Shelter.