Have To Wonder About People

Yesterday I was reading a persons blog. I visit there to drop cards and read, or should I say look at the pictures as I am not a fan of the writing type. Cute blog, don't get me wrong. BUT yesterday was where I just dropped my mouth open and sat there.

The blog is about a cat. Oh, it's a cute cat. The owner of the blog writes as if the cat is talking and telling a story. Plus dresses the cat up, takes pictures of all kinds of things it does. Very cute. Now, here is where my but comes in. Yesterday it was about how the cat is biting a small lizard and showing pictures of it in its mouth. A poll taken of if the lizard got away or was eaten. Truthfully, it was appalling. Why? If you are an animal lover, you should not take pictures that may be construed as animal cruelty. Letting an animal play with that lizard in the manner it did was in fact animal cruelty. Plain and simple. Yes, it was a lizard you might be thinking but does it not have rights to live without a human thinking that its cat biting its head, tossing it is cute to take pictures of? I say yes.

I read a few comments yesterday. Bad lizard. That was the overall consensus of the posts from people. Today I looked. over 80 comments, all saying the same thing, all talking as if they were cats. All saying that the cat should have eaten the lizard. Hmmm, maybe in a next life they too will return as one.

I sent this to a couple of my associates that are animal rights activists. They agreed this is and was animal cruelty. A senseless story showing that humor in the act of hurting a creature may captivate the masses. Entertaining? Not to me and not to them.

I am not a do gooder by far. We have owned lizards, iguanas, rats, mice, we have 4 cats, 3 dogs and even a tarantula. Animal safety and harming one for the pure entertainment and pleasure is just not on my list of what to do.

Cats capture prey. It is part of their nature. If this is done, it is done naturally. BUT to take photos of it and make a joke out of it? No, something wrong there.

I did notice that not one person posted that it was a poor lizard. My personal belief is that if anyone wrote that it was not right to do it was deleted. You can not convince me that there was not one person to think the same way I did. The same way that actually 10 others did.

Like I said it is a cute site. After today though I won't be visiting again.