Someeone did this on purpose

Today is another blustery winter day.   Beautiful really, with big fluffy flakes sifting from the sky.  Feeding the horses always gives me time for reflection and I find myself thinking about what happened to an employee of Home Depot.     People like Gayle Weisler renew my faith in the human race  and yet her  recent experience reminds me of those who are cruel and persecute wildlife.   Earlier this month, Gayle  found an emaciated mallard duck pacing in the parking lot with a zip tie clamped tightly around the ducks orange beak.  The tie had become embedded in his beak.   Someone did this on purpose.  She engaged four others to capture the duck, clip off the zip tie and then she took the duck to the Ohio Wildlife Center's hospital.   The duck is now recuperating and weighs more than seven times what he did when he arrived.  He is healing.   I send a prayer of thanks to  those dear people who are kind at heart like Gayle and Dr. Donald Burton, the center's founder and director.   As they say, "What goes around, comes around".