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I love animals too, but...

Just the other day, I visited a close friend. I was shocked to see his home in a topsy turvy condition in total chaos like a hoarder's house would be. Besides the books and bags that my friend had to house in (beside his two adult kids), he was also a proud father to three dogs!

You see, his son had finished his undergraduate studies and returned home for good (or bad). Besides acquiring his credits for his coursework and a girlfriend along the way, being an animal lover that he is, he started rearing dogs. The headache has now been passed over to my friend. (The feeding, cleaning and the irrational bark for no apparent reason - maybe it saw some apparition, must be his evil neighbour who died recently!)

There are amongst us who claim to be animal lovers. Just like vegans who choose to be so to minimize sufferings endured by a slaughtered but have no qualms about kicking a dog off his lawn, an animal lover who parades for equality and kindness for animals sometimes find it cumbersome to relate to a fellow being! They find it easier to relate to animals. In fact, psychiatry has identified this trait as a pre-morbid personality disorder and a precursor to schizophrenia!

On one hand we have people from PETA who lobby for total ban of hunting of all kinds of animals for fur and another group may find solace in propagating the number of Bengal tigers in the wilderness. I once had a room-mate who had a fetish for tigers. He plastered the whole room wall with posters of tigers. I suppose he was just suppressing his inner tiger-like appetite for companionship. He later pranced on many potential mates but sadly is now living as a lonely but majestic narcissistic He-tiger!

These lobbyists should take a trip down to Sandarbans Plains in the Bay of Bengal. Almost every family from this area have a gruesome tale to tell about one of their family members being attacked or eaten alive by a so-called endangered species which need to be preserved for the next generation beast called the deadly Bengal tiger!

Who are we to tell them, 'Save the Tigers!'?
I too love animals. So much so that I decided never to be a vegetarian.
I love animals so much that I eat them.... (but I am an omnivour).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attacks_in_the_Sundarbans
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  1. Anonymous13 June 2011 at 19:34

    On one hand we have people from PETA who lobby for total ban of hunting of all kinds of animals for fur....

    they forgot that these hunters to need to find survival....by killing the animals.....like the movie Gorilla in the mist.

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