A TEEN’S TAKE: Helene Barnes on animal cruelty
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“I like seeing animals taken care of and treated with love and respect. When I found my dog, Flintstone, he was malnourished and he weighed barely 15 pounds. He was probably dumped and it makes me angry that people would do that to another living being. It’s inhumane. My advice to anyone who encounters an abandoned or neglected animal is to help the animal or bring it to the Capital Area Animal Welfare Society.”
Age: 18
School: Episcopal High School
Parents: Carol Greenfield and Walton Barnes
Favorites:
Musician/singer: Alternative rock
TV show: “Jon and Kate Plus 8”
Movie: “The Sound of Music”
Place to hang out: Her dad’s farm in Greenwell Springs.
Role model: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. “Both Roosevelt and King are major examples of people who were truly selfless and permanently changed America.”
Extra: School president of St. Francis Society, a school club that helps neglected animals. Club members also advocate having pets spayed and neutered and they find homes and care for animals they find on the streets. Barnes has a bird, two peacocks, nine cats, four dogs, 10 horses, a rabbit and two turtles.
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