I spent a lot of my younger years staying with and working with my aunt and uncle in eastern Colorado. They raised sheep and cattle.
Me and my dog are pretty much tight and there’s not a problem being so but she pretty much knows she’s not people and I’m not dog and she doesn’t stray, that’s a people thing when that happens.
I too like most animals, like David’s thinking though, I think some feline type critters ought to be named “barn cats” and stay in the barn.
Back to the beginning: when your livelihood, like sheep, lambs, calves, become threatened by predators whether they be wild animals or neighbor farmers John’s dogs packed up and killing sheep for the hell of it, they need to taken down. Nuisance feral animals can be and are harmful to the welfare of humans at times also.
But there’s a difference between removing pestilence and the wanton slaying of animals. Meanness or pleasure or whatever sickness it is, it ain’t right for those sickos to do it.
I’ve known folks that understand that their animals are work tools and treated well like any good craftsmen would do his tools and I’ve seen folks who treat animals like s#@& just because they could.
Years ago it was all over the news about a duck running around a park with an arrow stuck through it. Some idiot!!! Some idiot shooting the puppy!!
What causes this? Dunno? Is it because of lack of parenting? Too much exposure on TV, in movies, or the violent video games? Dunno? But I’m still standing by the thoughts of more people, more bad. More knowledge of such, you’d think, should warn us rather than give us the wrong ideas.
Refresh with the book “Lord of the Flies”. It pretty much tells us how we as humans tend to be for real.
If I catch a coyote trying to kill my dog,or my aunts sheep, or my neighbors goats, I’m killing the sucker and I dang sure ain’t gonna eat it. 😆
