Norm Hewitt SPCA Assembly

This morning during a special meeting in the gym we had Norm Hewitt come in and present his "one of the family" presentation. He told us how His dad would go out to the pub when He was round seven years of age and get back after seven hours with cold fish and chips for everyone to eat, And if he was in a bad mood he would make a closed fist and beat Norm's mother. his indication to whether his dad was mad or not was the way he slammed or shut the door, If it slammed he knew his mother would be beaten that night. One night his father got so mad that he lined up all seven children and took off his belt, He eyed up Norm and whipped him, He would usually only whip him twice but norm showed no pain so his father carried on whipping. After that night Norm would run out into the paddock and hug his horse pledging that he would never hit or show a fist to his wife, children or anybody.

He told us how pets would help us bond the family together and hopefully stop family violence.