I really hate it when people state that animals are dumb. I hate it even more when they use this logic to defend their abuse towards animals. Animals are not dumb. They are very smart creatures. They work together as teams to survive. They have feelings of love and anger towards one another and towards other species. Granted they are not as evolved as Humans but that doesn't make them dumb. Geese fly in a V formation to maximize travel. The goose in the front does the most work and as further back the geese are in that formation the less work they have to do because they coast on the work of their family before them. When the leader tires, he moves and one that is more rested will go to the front to take his/her place. This allows them to travel great distances without having to stop. Salmon travel upstream every year to their birthplace in order to lay and fertilize more eggs. How can that be considered dumb?
However, since animals go more by instincts and are not as evolved as Humans, we cannot hold them to the same moral standards as we hold ourselves. It doesn't teach the Shark or Alligator any lesson by killing him because he killed a human. The more likely scenario is that the animal was defending himself from the human. Punishing the animal for doing what he is instinctually built to do is not justice. We must stop this practice.
There are more things we should stop but I need to go and get ready for work. I just had to get this bit off my chest.
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This is true. While I do think the more appropriate thing to do to that chimpanzee, Travis, was to put him down (did you see Carla Nash's face?!), I think it was sad because he shouldn't have been kept as a domestic pet in the first place. Exotic pets are not right.
There's a part of "The Hangover" where the guys have to return Mike Tyson's pet tiger that they stole. I could barely enjoy the humor for thinking, "Why the hell does he own a tiger?! That's not cool."
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