12 METRO Friday, October 16, 2009 D We see it all: A Scuderia Ferrari mechanic pushes tyres through the pit lane at the race track in Interlagos near Sao Paulo ahead of this weekends F1 Grand Prix of Brazil Picture: EPA The Big Picture Protect your pets Help: Our animal laws are dated SRD and Dominic, is it any wonder why animal welfare in Ireland is tossed to the side as an unimportant issue with attitudes like yours? Animal welfare laws here havent been updated in almost 100 years! We are embarrassingly behind the times in this regard. Sure, there are many important issues, but just because there is a recession, it doesnt lessen the importance of getting urgent new legislation in on animal welfare laws. Animal cruelty and abuse wont go away until something serious is done about it. It is time Ireland caught up with itself so that it can be proud, not just because of the Celtic Tiger and the boom years, but also because we are a country with compassion, empathy and maturity towards our fellow living creatures. Then and only then, I think we can say that Ireland is a truly modern and forward-thinking society. Animal Lover No-one has the right to throw a drugged piece of meat over the fence of their neighbour in the hope their pet will eat it and fall asleep all so you can get a lovely nights kip! Take a minute and think how you would feel if a neighbour did that to your pet! Also, take into account that the animal may die owing to ingestion of said sedative... Babs Dublins best-read letters page Metro Mail E-mail letters to mail@metroireland.ie with a name. Or text us. Text MAIL followed by comment and name to 53131. *Texts cost 30cent per message + standard network charges. SP. Oxygen8 Communications, Hospitality House, Cumberland Street South, D2. Customer service number 0818286606 talk to us Kudos: Troublesome Tribble, your letter on Wednesday was brilliant! You were spot on with your analogy of the new captain of the flagship that is Dil ireann. I was in tears laughing it made my morning! That said, enough with people moaning about all the crap going on. Lets get Metro Mail as funny as it was before and cheer everyone up, especially now with the cold mornings coming in! Barry, Devoted Metro Reader Elbows at dawn: To the plastic teenage girl who chose to compete with me for elbow room on the 25A yesterday morning, I will not indulge your spoiled outbursts. If the little princess feels she deserves a seat to herself, maybe public transport is not the right solution. Daf Love-making: Why do people take the legend that is Eamon Dunphy so seriously? The best part of RTs football coverage has to be when the three wise men all shout across each other trying to get their point across because of something ridiculous Dunphy has said! Id rather watch that as its far better than the love-making coverage on Sky/BBC/Setanta! Dunph4Pres In Brief Id certainly love to be SRDs neighbour! Imagine, an anonymous individual tossing portions of sirloin steak into your yard! Id be out there battling the dogs, cats and everything else just for the chance to masticate on a marvellous medallion of meat. Granted, there would be a mild sedative stuffed into it, but heck, in these recessionary times, Id eat it! In fact, just writing this has me drooling, oh how I yearn for a nice piece of steak... Bram A big shout out to yesterdays 7.45 Balbriggan bus driver who was supposed to go direct into Connolly via the Port Tunnel. Thanks a million for an eventful morning! First of all, you chose to drive at 60kmh on the motorway the whole way in, then you decide not to take the Port Tunnel and bring us down Collins Avenue past Whitehall and nearly get us killed pulling into a yellow box with oncoming traffic! I had a lucky escape by jumping off near Clontarf Dart Station and made my way into work by Dart. Elle, Freaked Balbriggan Commuter Sendusyour txt Why do men in particular huddle around the door of a packed train? There is usually room inside once you battle through the wall of bodies! Suz Confused Sceptic, the pen is mightier than the sword! If they used them in polling stations, there would be a blood bath... David Ryan Giggs belief that players deserve to be paid in excess of 100,000 a week to kick a ball around shows just how out of touch with reality professional footballers are. Our paramedics, doctors and nurses save countless lives in any 90-minute period thats what I call deserving! Ian B Dominic, you seem a little sarcastic, I take it you didnt vote for the Green Party, eh? However, those who did expect them to continue with their environmental policies. Niall The other morning, I saw a young lad take the chewing gum he had finished with out of his mouth, place it in a bit of tissue paper and put it in the bin. The youth of today... Fran txt MAIL to 53131* index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html