Survival Instincts?

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Animals, especially wild ones, don't have a human's understanding of human abilities and behaviors. They think differently.

I encountered a possum once in the middle of the sidewalk ahead of me, late at night, and decided to charge it, for fun. It turned to face me, and sat there. I was tempted to kick it fifty meters down the road, but instead just walked around it.

Humans aren't generally so smart, either. Recently here in the greater Seattle area, there was a dog (pit bull I think) which had chased a child, and a group of I think six armed police officers showed up to try to deal with it. The dog menaced them, and so, being the formidable and well-trained and brave and clever officers they are, fired several bullets at it and missed the dog, but shot one of their own party. The dog ran off and escaped that encounter.

Now, I know pit bulls are vicious, but I think their anti-dog training must be massively limited, if they think they need to resort to shooting metal bullets at a single dog that they outnumber 6:1. Not to mention accidentally hitting each other.

"Mouth rush" is not that sophisticated an unarmed combat technique, guys. There are countermoves humans can use on dogs.

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
Why do cats always park themselves right where people walk?

Usually the same reason they sit on newspapers or other projects people are working on - for attention.

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