The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for September 12, 2014

Word!

During the Bosnian war, the animals in the zoo did not turn on each other for weeks, until they were driven by sheer starvation. Even wild animals only kill to eat.

Happens all the time, dog (and cartoonist). Don’t you ever watch nature shows?

THANK YOU for this one. This is a reference that makes me angry and I can’t let it go by without a (gentle) attempt at correction. The word ‘animal’ is used all too often to describe the barbarians and savages out there who, in most cases, don’t belong in our midst.

Thanks Adrian, keep up the great work! :o)

Predator animals hunt down the weak, the elderly, the sick and the slow and vulnerable and the newborn with no regard, compassion or mercy. Nature knows nothing of mercy and compassion is a human word, there is only eating or death in the wild.

Seems the right word after all for what human predators do.

You will never see a 150 pound dog look guilty after killing and eating kittens you know.

treesareus: Been reading Wilhelm and Jacob recently? Feral dogs and dog/other canine hybrids do this on rare occasions, but the “big bad wolf” is still fiction.