Why Does It Matter?

A short story taken from a friend's blog that pretty much says why I think animal rescue is important.

THE STARFISH
As dawn broke, an old man was walking down the beach
and spotted a young man flinging starfish into the sea.

The old man asked the youth why he was doing that.

The answer was that they'd die if left to the sun.

"But the beach goes for miles and there are millions of them,"
the old man countered. "What difference is it going to make?"

The young man looked at the starfish and said,
as he threw it to safety,

"It makes a difference to this one."