BlackMan Time

I sympathize with wild animals¹ some people keep as pets. Everywhere you go these days, you see people protesting about animal rights, but what about the rights of an animal to be free?

Restyling the animal as a “pet” and giving them some kind of human name, doesn’t detract from the reality of what this actually is: animal slavery.

Let’s think about this.

Wild animals by their very nature do not willingly go and seek who their next captors will be. On the contrary! They tend to fight tooth and nail to resist becoming another animal’s prey or slave. But, then here comes hunter man to ensnare then take them back home and domesticate them.

Domestication

One can only imagine what the domestication process entails. But since it involves breaking the will of a wild animal it can only be painful, humiliating, inhumane or just generally unpleasant…

Many hundred years later when this practice has become globally acceptable, man and pet wild animal live side by side. Maybe, just like the dog mentioned here, the wild animal will remember its roots and occasionally attack his captor, otherwise known as pet owner.

Sometimes it is regrettable that these animals do not “rebel” more often considering the depressing lives some of them lead. Yet you get some within the animal kingdom who probably grumble about “letting the past take care of itself”, etc.

Even wild animals, it may seem, get the blues when they consider their roots…

1. Picture shows an ape making a protest! [↩]