Headlines all around the nations read
“ Tigers, lions and bears, Oh my! Private zoo owner in Ohio lets loose ferocious animals ending in a gigantic animal massacre. 52 animals killed”
This tragic incident was yet another result of a fatal attraction. There should be a law that in all states prohibiting the attempt at domesticating wild animals.
There are approximately 78.2 million dogs as pets in America, 86.4 million cats and 15,000 big cats kept as companions. I can understand why people are attracted to the grace and beauty of these gorgeous animals, but in an instant the animal you thought loved will kill you.
A great example of an event like this would be on October 16 2011, in Odessa Texas, a four year old boy was mauled by his aunt’s pet mountain lion. The poor little boy suffered from bite marks on the left side of his face, lacerations on his head from the mountain lions claws and wounds on his sides from the mountain lion grabbing him with his claws. The only conscience was a citation from the police on the owner because of not keeping up with the big cat’s vaccinations. In Ohio it is legal to keep wild animals as pets, if it was against the law this little boy wouldn’t have been severely injured.
These deadly animals can’t only harm you but they can harm your other pets as well, take this story into consideration. An African Several escaped from its owner’s home in Cincinnati Ohio on October 4th 2010 and was found in a barn hovering over a domestic cat it had just killed nine days after it had escaped, who knows what else this animal could have killed. A “pet” panther was found in someone’s backyard attacking a dog in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 24th 2008. What if the panther had wandered into the crowed city, what would happen then?
People who keep these big cats feel as though they are doing the right thing. This isn’t like adopting a stray dog from the humane society. This is wrong, the animal will not live very long, and they may seem loving but their bite is worse then their bark. Remember this old saying? “You can take the animal out of the wild, but you can’t take the wild out of the animal”. The big cat wouldn’t be able to live itself a full life. In most cases, either the owner is mauled or eaten then the tiger or lion has to be killed. Going back t the first story, 52 innocent tigers, lions, wolves, bears and other wild animals were killed because of one deadly act taken by their owner with a criminal record. After letting the animals loose the man shot himself. If these animals hadn’t been in the hands of someone who tried to keep them as pets these lions and tigers, wolves and bears wouldn’t have to be hunted down and killed. When I was a little girl I would discover little slimy creatures such as frogs or worms, wanted so badly to keep them and “add them to our family”. As much as I didn’t want to hear it my mother always told me ‘if you love something let it go” If the people who try to domesticate these animals really love them that much they should leave them in their natural homes. Let them be what God intended them to be, Wild animals.
