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Again, the difference is the impact on people. Wild animals acting violent towards their own isn’t really comparable to what are meant to be domesticated animals attacking people.Wait til you hear what rodents sometimes do to their babies, and what baby birds sometimes do to each other (some bird species apparently are obligate sibling-killers). And hell, what most reptiles normally do and why you don't cohab them (seriously ppl who cohab beardies and shit absolutely deserve to be shamed ITT).
Almost like animals are animals, and sometimes do fucked up shit because they don't understand or give a fuck about human morals.
That said, I wonder if the pup that was killed had something wrong with it? I know many animals will act aggressively towards weak/fucked up offspring.
Nature is a cruel mistress, no one is arguing that fact. The major difference is that herps and small mammals are non domestic animals that happen to be kept in captivity. More often than not much of the behavior you see in non domestics is a direct result of stress coming from captivity, though this isn’t always the case, some animals are just vicious. It is their nature.
Bully ‘breeds’ are vicious by nature, statistics show this. It makes perfect sense as they were bred for bloodsport. Horses and cows do not show outward aggression towards people in the same way that these dogs do, most animals that attack humans are doing so because of a fear reaction, not aggression for aggression’s sake. These are traits that are meant to be bred OUT of dogs.
Georgia has pretty harsh laws regarding pets actually. When I was there doing my occupational work with DNR for uni decades ago we often went around to schools to teach kiddos that housing and breeding certain herps was environmentally dangerous if not overall retarded (people releasing constrictors into the wild when they grow out of their already too small Tupperware was a real problem). The exotic pet trade is pretty heavily regulated, but unfortunately people just go down to Florida to buy whatever and bring it back across state lines to breed it anyway. Now the reason there aren’t that many laws regarding dogs is because, again, they are considered a domesticated species. The state has its hands tied because technically, you can’t tell people that they can’t breed domesticated animals, even if the results are terrible for the animals and the community at large. Which is why we have the SMASHED and SLAMMED problems in the first place. It makes me low key glad that dogs are not a common occurrence in my home country.That kind of shit seems particularly common in rural areas, at least in my state (probably b/c less ordinances and enforcement of them).
Wonder if those kind of conditions are what produced the progenitors of the "exotic bullies"? Because I highly doubt the OG toadline whatever the fuck dogs weren't also inbred as all hell.
But people anthropomorphize animals too much. Animals are animals, and they will act in an animalistic way that is accordance with their breed or inherit nature. The dumb bints and former inmates who want bullies because ‘they’re so misunderstood, just like me! Everyone deserves a second chance!’ Are just as bad as the nogs who want to breed them because they get off on the dog’s aggressive nature.
Also I seriously doubt anyone itt has a ‘hateboner’ for these animals. Basic pattern recognition and recognizing that something is dangerous is a long way from hating it. I think tigers are dangerous as fuck and shouldn’t be owned privately, but that doesn’t mean I hate them. Arguably the people itt care MORE about animals than the average poster, because seeing these things suffering from over breeding is enough to make us MATI.