In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions

[Jamastiene]

29. Sounds like the jerks where I live who kill just about every animal they see, because

they are so ignorant and afraid of them. They automatically assume the animal is around JUST to kill them when, in reality, if they practiced the tiniest amount of common sense when dealing with wildlife and didn't react in such an over-reactionary way, they wouldn't have such bad luck around the wildlife.

People have been warning me for years about the wildlife where I live. There are snakes here longer than I am tall. There are spiders here who grow almost as large as some of the Australian spiders you see pictures of and hear about. Raccoons, opossums, bobcats, foxes and at least one bear, and just about every other animal in the entire area seem to hang out in my backyard. I've been here 11 years now. If they wanted me dead or harmed, they would have long since taken me out of this world. Why they don't do it is because I use common sense when I see a wild animal. I don't immediately try to kill it or corner it because of superstitious nonsense. Funny how that works. People who have a healthy respect for wildlife but don't go around seeing it as the enemy to be taunted, tortured, and killed on sight, seem to live through our encounters with wildlife, while people who want every animal around them killed just because they might harm someone have nothing but bad encounters with wildlife. That is how it works.

The person who wrote that sounds just like the dumbasses who go around torturing and taunting wild animals bigger than them then claiming the animals are killers when they finally have had enough of a bunch of superstitious nonsense from cruel people and finally attack to try to get away.

Duh, lions kill because they are hungry. They gotta feed their families just like the rest of us. If you want them to stop killing you, stop seeing them as the enemy to be tortured and cornered and killed, just because they MIGHT be the one that ate someone's offspring when they weren't watching the kid while on some safari.

A friend of mine got bitten by a rattlesnake when he was 12 years old. It took him months to recover. He has a pet snake today 30 years later and loves snakes. When I was younger, I saw snakes the way I was taught to see them, as enemies just waiting to bite people. I asked my friend what happened and why the rattlesnake bit him. He said he was messing with it even after it assumed a defensive position. He said he didn't kill the snake, did not want the snake killed, and did not blame the snake after he was bitten. He was being disrespectful by messing with the snake even after it showed fear and the feeling of being cornered. I learned from his experience. He taught me about snakes after that. I no longer hated them. The rest of my family is fucking hysterical if they even see a snake on the road while riding down the road in a car. Fucking silly superstitious bullshit.

I'm sick of people claiming any and every animal in the wild is just waiting to kill as many humans as possible. Look at the actual statistics for the truth. There are less than 30,000 lions left in the wild but humans are overpopulating the damn planet in the BILLIONS, that billions with a B, not M. More humans kill lions than lions kill people. I fear the two legged bastards who go around killing any animal they see because it MIGHT be dangerous to them (aka, they fear it). I'll take my chances with the wildlife. I am firmly in the two legs bad, four legs good category. People always mean pain for me. So, I'll takes my chances with the wildlife and watch people.