Why you should not judge scary or meat eating animals.

                              Why You Should Not Judge Scary or Meat Eating Animals
                                                              (By: Iris B.J.)
 
        Many people stamp at the sight of a spider, yell when they see a little snake or start charging to throw their flip-flops at that tiny house centipede sleeping under a rock. It may seem reasonable to those people, but from another view, it just looks all out silly and unnecessary.

       Chances are that you may have a phobia of some sort of dangerous or scary creature. After all, a big percent of the population has one. It’s good that you respect these creatures and give them their space, but hating them with such a passion is not an option. I know lots of people who say that rattlesnakes, spiders, crocodiles, etc. should go extinct because they are ‘too dangerous’ or ‘scary’. Sometimes just seems that they do not care for animals that are not ‘cute’ or ‘cool’. Here are reasons why you should not be like those people.

        No animal without an interest in eating you would be happy to kill you. It is common sense that animals would defend themselves when frightened and that nobody would want to be stepped on. If a snake bites you for frightening it, you should feel bad for frightening it and getting bitten, and not call it ‘evil’ for protecting itself.

       You cannot even blame animals for eating cute things. It is very shocking and depressing when that bobcat eats your budgie, but that bobcat must be hungry/have kits to feed. Wild animals do not hunt for fun usually, because all food is precious in a world where you are searching for your next meal every morning. (Not-so-fun-fact, domestic cats' and dogs are more likely to hunt for fun)

      A very important fact is that ALL ANIMALS HAVE A PLACE. If all rattlesnakes go extinct, rodent populations would go out of control. If all wolves went the way of the dodo, their main food source, elks, would eat all of the plants, leaving a barren wasteland in their wake. As a matter of fact, this has happened before in Yellowstone national park. Farmers with a ‘carnivores should go extinct’ mindset killed off more than 90 percent of all wolves to ‘protect elk and sheep’. This destroyed the ecosystem, and until wolves were re-introduced into Yellowstone, the plant and elk populations were dying off.

       And to top it off, animals that look scary aren’t always dangerous. Some spiders do not have venom and would rather scamper off instead of face a predator. Snakes that are unable to eat humans fear us like we fear them.

      Also, humans are encroaching on animal territory. More wild animals are raiding farms and lurking in towns and cities as they expand. If humans would just stay where they are and not be building big factories in the middle of forests and turning it into a big concrete wasteland, then they wouldn’t have to face raccoons and bears running around at every turn.

       In conclusion, we should respect animals and not hate or despise them, or wish they go extinct. Every animal has their place in the world, and have their own little lives to live. We should respect all animals, and be reasonable in our decisions.