packrat
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Kenny, that's part of what gets me.
It's like we think b/c we're human, we're better, we can do whatever we want, we can go wherever we want, at all times, regardless. I don't agree w/that. There's alligators in alligator territory--heck, alligators get into people's backyards and into their pools for heavens sakes, why would we think it's ok to be where they naturally live? Sharks are in the oceans. That's where they live. You'd naturally expect that you could have a chance to meet one, whenever you're in the ocean. There's bears in Minnesota. We've seen them running across the highway when we're up there going to the resort and take the time to explain to the kids guess what, this is bear country and they're not cuddly and fuzzy. We have bobcats and mountain lions. JD takes precautions when he's out early morning and late at night in the timbers b/c you never know. That's their territory. Yes, it's horribly horribly upsetting and tragic and cuts you to the core when something happens, especially when it's a child. But that doesn't minimize our responsibility for our own safety, and the safety of our children. Any time you are in a wild animals territory, it's not about *you* anymore, and you are, like it or not, in *their* territory, and they are *predatory animals*. They prey on other animals, and that's what they see you as, prey, or a threat.
Now other animals die b/c an animal was doing what comes naturally to it, what it's designed by nature to do. Hunt. Eat. Defend.
It's like we think b/c we're human, we're better, we can do whatever we want, we can go wherever we want, at all times, regardless. I don't agree w/that. There's alligators in alligator territory--heck, alligators get into people's backyards and into their pools for heavens sakes, why would we think it's ok to be where they naturally live? Sharks are in the oceans. That's where they live. You'd naturally expect that you could have a chance to meet one, whenever you're in the ocean. There's bears in Minnesota. We've seen them running across the highway when we're up there going to the resort and take the time to explain to the kids guess what, this is bear country and they're not cuddly and fuzzy. We have bobcats and mountain lions. JD takes precautions when he's out early morning and late at night in the timbers b/c you never know. That's their territory. Yes, it's horribly horribly upsetting and tragic and cuts you to the core when something happens, especially when it's a child. But that doesn't minimize our responsibility for our own safety, and the safety of our children. Any time you are in a wild animals territory, it's not about *you* anymore, and you are, like it or not, in *their* territory, and they are *predatory animals*. They prey on other animals, and that's what they see you as, prey, or a threat.
Now other animals die b/c an animal was doing what comes naturally to it, what it's designed by nature to do. Hunt. Eat. Defend.