Do animals love? I believe they do. More Video Added

[Gerry Mac]

People in Cali, Colombia, are shocked to see the bond between a large African lion and a woman who saved it from abuse, involving long, affectionate kisses and hugs between the pair.



Ana Julia Torres, who runs the Villa Lorena animal shelter in Cali, fed and nursed Jupiter the African lion back to health years ago after it was found abused and emaciated in a traveling circus.



"It is amazing to see an animal like that be so sweet and affectionate," said Torres. "This hug is the most sincere one that I have received in my life."

 

[Johnny O]

Until one day when it decides she is lunch.



"That tiger didn't go crazy. That tiger went tiger." -- Chris Rock

 

[Tom Schindler]

Absolutly they feel love. They also feel fear, anger, jealousy, and sorrow. They also feel pain.





Tom

 

[Bo Loo]

I watched a show recently about how smart crows are. One example was when one of them was found dead, they all perched on a tree near it without making any sounds at all. They sat there for about an hour and flew away silently.

 

[EddieS'04]

My cat feels love and shows love. Too long of a list of things she does. We treat each other like family.

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[Mark K 2]

I raised my pet starling from a three-day-old baby. I leave the large door open on his cage during the day. He comes to see me wherever I am in the house and he often sits on my shoulder and cuddles up next to my neck and dozes off.



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[Tom Schindler]

I watched a show recently about how smart crows are.

To add to the intellegence of a crow, I will add the following.



You ever notice that you hardly, if ever see a crow that has been hit by a car. They use the buddy method when eating from a street or road. While one is eating, another sits on a wire and screams "Cah Cah" when a car comes. This alerts the one eating that a car is on its way and it needs to move...:bwahaha:





Tom

 

[gary s]

yes, and they are very GRATEFUL :love:



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[Kevin Palmer]

Tom,,,



Funny stuff.... LOL

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Do animals love?



Good question.



Not sure.



Heck, there are a lot of people that I know that make me wonder if they love...or even can love.



TJR

 

[Gerry Mac]

Here is another really cute vvideo about dogs.

I really miss my Goldie. One of the worst days of my life was "putting her down". Putting her down! Is that just a nice way of saying I killed her because she was so sick.



Gerry



This is Chelsea, my Goldie. Gone at 12 1/2 years from Cancer.

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[Thomas Rogers]

Gerry.



Sorry about that.



You didn't kill her. Cancer was killing her. You just ended the pain and the indignity. We treat our pets better than our family members in this regard, IMHO.



TJR

 

[LaRue Medlin]

This VIDEO still makes me want to shed a tear. Animals have feeling just like us. +1 on what Tom said, we had to put Timmy down because of blindness, mouth cancer and a broken back, He just could not survive any more like he was. Confined to a baby's playpin and wearing diapers. We had him 18 1/2 years. It was no different than loosing a family member. Gerry, I feel your pain.



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[Mark K 2]

Years ago, I shot a female house sparrow. Its mate started to fly away, but turned around and came back. He clutched her in his feet and flew away with her. About 100 feet away, he landed. He hopped around her, prodding her to wake up. After a minute of just standing there, he flew away. That's the last time I ever willfully killed something.

 

[Gerry Mac]

Mark K



I could not possibly be more proud of you and we have never met. Years ago, as a grown man and a police officer I decided to go elk hunting. After all, it was the manly thing to do. I was hunting in Alberta Canada. A place called A7 Ranch. The Calgary ST members will know the place. I shot an elk, a long shot and knocked him to the ground. I walked that walk down to that animal, the first animal I had ever shot and approached it. As I got close enough I could hear him crying. I swear to you friends, he was crying. I saw tears in his eyes. I could not muster the courage and that is just what I lacked at that moment was courage, to shoot him again. I sat beside him and he put his head on my knees and we sat there together for almost an hour as he died and I stroked his muzzle gently. Yes, I was a coward and to this day I still regret that shot. I traded that rifle for a match pistol and never killed another animal until I walked Chelsea into the vet that day.

Now I sit here like a blubbering old fool again. A grown man, crying over his stupid mistakes and the loss of best friend he ever had.



Gerry



Sorry guys

 

[Tom Schindler]

I shot my first deer when I was 18 years old or so. I was high on my shot and hit her spine right above her stomach. Her back legs flew up and she tried to run away using her front legs. It screwed me up right there. I shot her one more time in the head to put her out of her misery.



That was the last time I ever went hunting.



I support hunters rights and feel hunting is something that has to be done, but it isn't for me.



I have killed my fair share of animals since then. If I accidently hit a one of my Dad's wild cats that he feels the need to feed, I will finish the job with a shovel if needed. Our city is having problems with sewer rats coming into people homes. I personally have never had any inssues with them in my home, but Dad has and I have killed a half dozen this year. It doesn't bother me to kill them, but to shoot an animal for no other reason but to kill is not something I want to do. I will do it only when I have to. Even then, it still bothers me.



If meat did not taste so good, I wouldn't eat it.



I know of a guy that would hunt anything there is to hunt. He lived in the country and raised beef cattle. He would NEVER kill his own stock. He would sell the steer and buy one with the money. He said he never felt right killing something he raised and fed it whole life.

Yes, I was a coward and to this day I still regret that shot.

You are not a coward, you have respect for life. There is a difference. IMO, a coward is someone that has no respect for life or the feelings of others. That person is making up for his own internal demons.





Tom

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Gerry,



I hope you can get past putting your dog down. You didn't kill her. You gave her a respectful, dignified end to her suffering. I wish we could do that with our humans with cancer. Having watched my mom twindle down to nothing, with no hope for a cure, and nothing but pain, no quality of life, and massive amounts of morphine her last several weeks of "life", I have to say that you did better by your dog than we did for our mom...not because we wouldn't do it, but because we couldn't...by law.



TJR