Mabaya ezvipfuyo zvihombe zvakaita sehwai, nguruve nemombe asiyana zvikuru nepanobaya huku. Ivowo vari kuramba vachiwanda, semafekitari, asi kunyangwe zvese, ndiwo maonero anotyisa kwazvo andakaona muhupenyu hwangu.
Dzimba dzakawanda dzekuuraya dziri muzvivako zvikuru zvine maacoustic akanaka uye mhuka dzakawanda dzakafa dzakarembera kubva padenga. Ruzha rwesimbi inorira inovhengana nekurira kwemhuka dzinotya. Unogona kunzwa vanhu vachiseka uye vachiseka. Hurukuro yavo inovhiringwa nepfuti dzepfuti dzakakosha. Kune mvura neropa kwose kwose, uye kana rufu ruine hwema, zvino musanganiswa wekunhuhwirira kwetsvina, tsvina, matumbu emhuka dzakafa uye kutya.
Mhuka dziri kuno dziri kufa nekurasikirwa neropa mushure mekuchekwa huro. Kunyangwe muUK vanofanirwa kutanga vaitwa vafenda. Izvi zvinoitwa nenzira mbiri - zvinoshamisa nemagetsi uye nepfuti yakakosha. Kuti zviunze mhuka kuti ive mumamiriro ekusaziva, simba remagetsi rinoshandiswa, rakafanana nechigero chikuru chine mahedhifoni panzvimbo yemashizha, muurayi anosungirira musoro wemhuka nawo uye kubuda kwemagetsi kunokatyamadza.
Mhuka dzinenge dzisisazive chinhu - kazhinji nguruve, hwai, makwayana nemhuru - dzinobva dzasimudzwa necheni yakasungirirwa pagumbo rekumashure remhuka. Vakabva vacheka huro. Pfuti inonzi stun gun inowanzoshandiswa pamhuka huru dzakaita semombe dzakura. Pfuti inoiswa pahuma yemhuka yopfurwa. A metal projectile yakareba 10 cm inobhururuka kubva mubhodhoro, inobaya huma yemhuka, inopinda muuropi uye inovhundutsa mhuka. Nokuda kwechokwadi chikuru, tsvimbo inokosha inopinzwa mugomba kunyandura uropi.
Mhou kana bhuru rinopidigurwa rogurwa huro. Zvinoitika muchokwadi zvakasiyana chaizvo. Mhuka dzinoburutswa mumarori dzichiiswa mumatanga ezvipfuyo chaiwo. Mumwe nemumwe kana mumapoka, vanotamiswa kuenda kunzvimbo yekushamisa. Kana mbambo dzemagetsi dzichishandiswa, mhuka dzinoiswa dzakatarisana. Uye usatenda avo vanoti mhuka hadzinzwe zvichazoitika kwavari: ingotarisa nguruve, idzo dzinotanga kurovera pasi nekutya, dzichitarisira kupera kwadzo.
Mabhucha anobhadharwa nenhamba yemhuka dzaanouraya, saka anoedza kushanda nokukurumidza sezvinobvira uye kazhinji haapi nguva yakakwana yokuti mbariro dzesimbi dzishande. Nemakwayana, havatomboashandisi. Mushure mekuita kunoshamisa, mhuka inogona kudonha yakafa, inogona kuoma mitezo, asi kazhinji inoramba ichiziva. Ndakaona nguruve dzakaturikwa pasi dzakachekwa huro dzichimonya nekudonhera pasi dzazara ropa dzichida kutiza.
Kutanga, mombe dzinopinzwa mudanga chairo dzisati dzashandisa pfuti kuti dzirove. Kana zvose zvikaitwa nemazvo, mhuka dzinobva dzafenda pakarepo, asi izvi hazviiti nguva dzose. Dzimwe nguva muurayi anopotsa pfuti yekutanga uye mombe inorwa nemarwadzo iye achiisazve pfuti. Dzimwe nguva, nekuda kwemidziyo yekare, katuriji haizoboore dehenya remombe. Zvose izvi "miscalculations" zvinokonzera kutambura mupfungwa uye mumuviri kumhuka.
Maererano neongororo yakaitwa neRoyal Society for the Protection of Animals, mhuka dzinenge nomwe kubva muzana hadzina kushamiswa zvakanaka. Kana dziri nzombe duku uye dzakasimba, nhamba yadzo inosvika makumi mashanu nenhatu kubva muzana. Muvhidhiyo yekamera yakavanzika yakatorwa paimba yekuuraya, ndakaona nzombe imwe isingafadzi ichipfurwa nepfuti sere isati yadonha yafa. Ndakaona zvimwe zvinhu zvakawanda zvaindishungurudza: kubata mhuka dzisina dziviriro zvisina hunhu uye hutsinye hwaive muitiro webasa.
Ndakaona nguruve dzichityoka muswe padzakapinzwa muimba yairohwa makwayana, makwayana achiurayiwa asina kana kumborohwa nehana, mwana wemhondi ane hutsinye akatasva nguruve yaitya, yakavhunduka ichitenderedza mbavha kunge rodeo. Nhamba yemhuka dzakaurayiwa mukati megore muUK kugadzirwa kwenyama:
Nguruve 15 mamiriyoni
Huku 676 miriyoni
Mombe mamiriyoni matatu
Makwai mamiriyoni 19
Turkeys mamiriyoni 38
Madhata 2 miriyoni
Tsuro mamiriyoni mashanu
Helena 10000
(Data rakatorwa kubva kuGovernment Report yeMinistry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Abattoirs 1994. UK population 56 miriyoni.)
“Handidi kuuraya mhuka uye handidi kuti dziuraiwe ini. Nokusatora rutivi murufu rwavo, ndinonzwa kuti ndine mubatanidzwa wapachivande nenyika uye naizvozvo ndinorara murugare.
Joanna Lamley, mutambi.