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elionwyrJust another quote from The Lady and Her Tiger, circa 1976, because it again echoes what I was saying...those animals didn't have to die.
...The next time you read newspaper articles about deputy sheriffs armed with automatic weapons leading their posses on a hunt for some escaped lion or tiger, remember that the savage beast is invariably as terrified and lonely as a soul in Limbo. I have never known one that wasn't trying to find its way home, or that didn't know when someone was attempting to help it. We make them into creatures who fear the sky, who can't feel safe anywhere but within a few square feet of stone and steel and darkness. We are responsible for them, to them - it is absolutely the least we can do. But of course it's more fun to shoot.
...The next time you read newspaper articles about deputy sheriffs armed with automatic weapons leading their posses on a hunt for some escaped lion or tiger, remember that the savage beast is invariably as terrified and lonely as a soul in Limbo. I have never known one that wasn't trying to find its way home, or that didn't know when someone was attempting to help it. We make them into creatures who fear the sky, who can't feel safe anywhere but within a few square feet of stone and steel and darkness. We are responsible for them, to them - it is absolutely the least we can do. But of course it's more fun to shoot.