The gift of animals

LISBON — Nothing says Christmas like a pair of chickens.

That’s not the Christmas meal, but a gift of two live chickens at the bargain price of $11.

Two rabbits are available for the same cost, while a pair of pigs are available for $55. A big spender may splurge on a water buffalo for $460.

While Americans may be cutting back for the holidays this year because of high prices and financial upheaval, Cindy Morrissey of Lisbon, her husband, Matt, and their five children are Christians who are promoting help to dalits in Asia.

Dalits are the so-called untouchables of the caste system found in some Asian countries who live at the rock bottom of the economic scale.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator and on vindy.com