Responsibe Exotic Animal Owners
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Why Should We Fight Together?
By Eric, April 2008
The world is facing a flood of biblical proportions. This flood is of humans, technology, and climate changes. They are already calling the food shortages "A Perfect Storm". Fueled by the desire for bio fuels, human food is bearing the expense that was once put on fossil fuels.
When the hungry need to eat, what becomes valuable? Animals become meat. It doesn't matter what animal, if it moves, humans
will find a way to kill it, and eat it. If it is poisonous, or dangerous, killing it will calm the hungry, and eliminate a competitor.
Yet in privileged nations, some humans will choose to care for animals, large or small. These people are truly enraptured by the wild those animals represent, even if that wild no longer exists. These individuals offer comfort, health care, and hope to species that once thrived in a native habitat, where roads now fence the wild brethren in.
The large amounts of habitat that once housed wild animals but are now called urban sprawl can still house some of these animals. Animals that have been displaced, ostracized, and in some cases may soon be driven into extinction.
But only if those humans that care about all animals band together, and fight for that right.
The right to care and love all the animals that inhabit this world with us. Caring for these animals does not tame those animals, but they help to remind the so called "civilized humans" of their primal roots, and preserve some of their humanity, compassion, and love.
Best, Eric
Copyright 2008 © Eric & REXANO
Photo Copyright 2008 © Zuzana Kukol & REXANO
NOTE: This was a winning entry in REXANO MySpace Contest, and the winner won and picked one REXANO T-shirt of his choice. A picture of the winner wearing their shirt will be posted if we get one!
