I was fortunate enough this weekend to go to Queens for a family get together. The last one I had to miss because I wasn’t feeling up to it, so I had to cancel my plans to go. That’s what happens when you’re on chemo, you can’t make plans and everything has to be played by ear. So this time we made it down and my brother was entertaining the kids by watching one of the Back to the Future movies. They made it to a scene where Doc wants to test the time machine and for the test he decided to use the dog instead of a human. My kids were appalled. They were asking how anyone could do that to a dog. Just send him out in the machine when they didn’t even know if it worked. They were really upset and my brother had to talk them down by telling them that he knew it would work, Doc just wanted the dog to go first, or something like that. They were happy with that explanation. When you watched Back to the Future, did that scene phase you at all? Did you care about the well-being of that dog? I’m so proud of my kids that they were not just watching the movie, but examining it and thinking about it and that they care so deeply about other species and protecting them.
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