Re-post: En el Jardín Zoológico

Mar 11, 2005 2 Replies

If some animals bother you, then why indulge them? Why play with them?



It's one thing (in slow periods) to flip them the occasional dog biscuit and watch them perform to cue, or demonstrate this to your friends. Factors that make these animals bark and mess themselves also make their behavior more predictable than they themselves are able to see. (This is evident with experience and enough familiar repetitions of behaviors fancied always to be original.) But [adding to recent sound advice here] to engage them and yet complain about their behavior, is unentertaining, not to mention inhumane. Occasionally a difficult animal of consistently ill humor can be an oblique foil for good fun enjoyed by all others -- like a ball on a billiards table used for a carom shot into multiple pockets, technically difficult but gratifying. This is not as good as converting the animal itself to good humor, but it does salvage something. Otherwise though they are usually best left alone. (Suggestion from old animal handler.)



Please remember this when you visit the zoo.


Wow Max, I am impressed by your obviously very big brain. You are as predictable as so many others. You are very entertaining yourself>

Salut/Hi AyTee,

le/on 11 Mar 2005 18:38:07 -0800, tu disais/you said:-

No, it's called all e go ry.

You surely don't think all Aesops fables were REALLY about storks and frogs were you?

Dearey me. What is afw coming to? People who reply to trolls instead of killfiling them and people who need to be shown their noses are in front of their faces.

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