As the animal hurt a human being, it got shot and killed...it's a WILD ANIMAL, you freaking ASKED for it! I have a friend who works at the Pittsburgh zoo. They have a crocodile there and a big one at that. Being a reptile, it doesn't move a lot of the time. She has seen people dangle their kids over the bridge that overlooks the exhibit to try and touch the croc as it apparently spends a lot of time under the bridge, to see if the croc will move. The bridge is high enough that I don't think anyone can touch the croc, but people try. If it does move, that's going to be a dead kid and an angry parent wondering why Mr. Croc killed her kid. And then the zoo will have to kill the croc as it would be a man-eating animal. Yes, let's dangle a kid to touch a 10 foot long 400 pound crocodile and expect it to remain docile and respect the superior human being as it disturbs it. Well, DUH!
Sometimes people just have to get what they're asking for, and even then they don't learn. Cold, maybe, but we just need to stop expecting wild animals to be civilized like us and let them their lives.
As a note, a couple summers ago, I read a story from home about a man encountering a black bear mother with some cubs (and bear cubs are undeniably some of the cutest baby animals ever) who wandered into his yard, as he lived near forest. He shot a bb gun at the cubs, and the mother attacked him. He survived the attack, and the mother was sought out and shot, leaving her cubs to fend for themselves. Yes...attack baby animals, and let's get surprised when mom gets angry and defends them, and demand she get killed, as if most human mothers wouldn't defend her offspring when they're under attack!
This still...infuriates me.
Posted: Sat Oct 10, '09, 6:15 pm 
