(86) I Love All the Animals

I just watched a documentary on Discovery about when moose attack, and now I'm watching a general documentary on Spike about dangerous animals. Truth be told, most animals scare me to death. But so long as I see them on a TV screen, pictures, or behind iron bars or a cage, I swoon over their cutesy cuddleiness.

I just saw the segment about bears mauling people, and it seems that most bears go directly for the face. It reminds me a lot of those stupid facebook meme things. There was literally one that said something along the lines of "if you ever get mauled by a bear, I hope they stay away from your face because you're pretty cute :)"
DEBUNKED. Upon any given rendezvous with a bear, say goodbye to your lover's pretty face.

I at least like how all the victims say (or perhaps claim) that they hold no grudge against the animal that attacked them. Most times, the rampaging animals are female who think you are entirely too close for comfort, or that you and your pretty face look delicious. Some times, the animal that attacked someone is literally hunted down and killed. But really, I understand that we have a social order and that we're pretty much at the top of the food chain in the animal kingdom, but why must we hold ourselves to be so much more important and valuable than animals?

It's likely because we're an entirely different species from them, and don't necessarily have to associate with them. But we can use them to test cosmetics and other potentially damaging medicines, we can lock them up and put them on display, force them into show business (like SeaWorld for example, those dolphins and Orcas live tragically short lives and suffer to no end!), and we can even hunt them, killing them for no reason other than to call it a sport. Under captivity of humankind, what chance does an animal have to escape and how likely will it re-adapt upon release? Close to none, and will probably die of starvation. I just don't get it.

Now I'm not a big PETA fan, frankly I think they objectify and humiliate people for the sake of animals which is equally wrong, but it is strange that a small part of me feels guilty that humankind has dominated and constructed nearly the entire world? In a perfect world, we'd all get along. Like in cartoons and stuff.