Aw, I love Sea Lions. I feel bad about the cute Sea Lion Shows because it seems so undignified....
Zoos make me feel this way. I know there are a lot of Buffistas who love animals more than I do, and know a lot more about animals than I ever will, who love zoos. But they just make me feel badly. I know there's an educational trade-off, and that we learn things to help protect species, but seeing the big cats behind fences, and the apes in cages just feels so wrong to me. It feels like exploitation.
I had a cockroach run down my nightie once.
THAT IS NOT CUTE!
Bird in cleavage, cute.
Goat in pants, cute.
Squirrels in cleavage, cute.
Bait fish, I'll take a pass.
ROACHES ARE NEVER CUTE.
Goat in pants, cute.
My god, woman, what kind of sicko are you?
As a story, I mean. I already said it was traumatic, but as a story, it's all three-billy-goats-gruff.
Wasn't there a musical with singing dancing cockroaches?
On Edit - Joe's Apartment
Squirrel.
Updates Ginger's special Injuries & Incidents file with many exclamation points and interrobangs and much underlining.
Today I suddenly wanted custom plates reading "OMGWTF." Or maybe "WTFBBQ." It was a startling impulse.
I have recently seed Quidditch plates, but I can't remember how they were spelt. Involved a "W." And "HIJK MNO" which I'm torn on -- twee? Charming? Cute? Too clever? I suppose it all depends on the name of the owner.
But they just make me feel badly. I know there's an educational trade-off, and that we learn things to help protect species, but seeing the big cats behind fences, and the apes in cages just feels so wrong to me. It feels like exploitation.
While visiting my local zoo once, I was standing outside the primate exhibit while a stupic, unwashed hick was laughing and taunting an obviously upset male chimpanzee. It made me physically ill. The guy was a complete ass and the poor chimp was pounding the glass in frustration.
I kept wanting the yell at the guy that the chimp was the more evolved primate, but the docent quietly made him move on before I lost it.
While I appreciate that zoos are now fully immersed in conservation and preservation, I still can't help but be a little sad when I go.
