Animals and rose tinted glasses

[Ethel]

I have seen a post today, and heard often, that is offensive to call badly behaved people 'animals' as animals don't behave like that.

Why do some people view animals in this way when nature documentaries show animals killing and eating their own young and a quick google will show a pig eating its own piglet; a chimp maiming and killing a baby chimp and discussions as to why a dog has eaten one of her pups?

I blame Walt Disney for anthropomorphising animals and making them cutesy.

[LoftyLottie]

Sometimes animals do kill their own offspring, unfortunately it happens, but it is 'instinctive' Boo and sometimes it is because they just lack experience or are immature mothers or through jealousy. But it defintely does happen for many reasons.

However, they do not plan it or have the human ability to contrive and plan it and work out the most awful way of hurting or killing their own kind. Only humans do that. Only humans can be just plain evil!

[B00]

I've still to see an animal break bones of their offspring over a period of 8 weeks.

And yes, I'm still defending my right for these so called people not to be classed as animals/

[DrFilth]

cats get more like humans everyday



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LbqScTVBiWM&feat ure=related



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[LoftyLottie]

I do agree with you BOO, and it's not something I say myself, but I don't think ,pst people actually mean it - if they thought about it they would probably feel like us .

[LoftyLottie]

",pst people" ???? That was meant to be most people, not p*ssed people ;o). You can tell I'm a touch typist and don't look at the keys.

[LoftyLottie]

LOL at that fat cat Dr Filth.