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Originally posted by leagleaze
Poor baby bear. When I was a kid one of our cats grabbed a baby bunny. The screams, I imagine, are similar to the baby racoon screams, it was horrible. We chased the cat around trying to save the bunny, but, no luck.
You all probably recall though, that I managed to save the three baby ducks. I have a picture of the three of them (from the back) waddling away hanging in my study. It always gets comments and requests for copies.
As far as the nature show, I imagine they probably see a lot of animals that have gotten lost or had parents killed. They also see a lot of one animal killing another one. When should they interfere, do you think?
I don't think they should interfere and stop one from killing another one, I'm not quite sure about the lost baby animal issue, but that is probably just because baby animals are so cute.
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I used to scotch my cat's attempts to kill rabbits all the time. We had one female cat for 18 years who killed literally everything imaginable. Snakes, rabbits, chipmunks, small squirrels. She'd get mad as hell when I'd catch her in the act and stop her, and I've read that doing so confuses the cat, but I couldn't watch that shit go on. I've stepped on rabbit guts the front door mat more times than I can recall. Saving one or two wasn't upsetting any ecological balance in the yard.
You have to save the bear. Leaving anything to starve because you cannot deviate from your "scientific" perch is monstrous. But, I agree - if a wolf was baring down on an elk, you should not interfere. That's just being a schmuck.
Perhaps its because the bear actually seemed to be looking for aid. I mean, the thing was crying. Hell, it would have been more humane even if they'd shot it. Just don't let the poor thing languish.
I also hate Brits in nature shows. They look so out of their element.
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