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The
Dowry
Years
ago and miles away, a father offered as a dowry 6 cows so that his son might
marry a neighbor's daughter...a rather homely and shy spinster.
The
community was in disbelief that this otherwise-sensible father of an equally
sensible young man would pay such a price to purchase a wife unworthy of
even the normal 2-cow dowry!
When
confronted by a curious friend, the boy's father gave this explanation: If I
see my future daughter-in-law as worthy of a 6-cow dowry, my son will begin
to see and treat her as such, and then she will begin to see herself that
way...and eventually the neighbors will see her as an exceptional wife, well
worth the 6 cows paid.
At
TCHS we believe that the animals in our care have the capacity to become
'6-cow' animals; we treat each animal as such and will expect that adoptive
families see their new pets not as what they have been, but as what they can
become. |
