What do you mean? Do you think deer, beavers, raccoons, squirrels, moose, wolves, cheetahs, etc prefer to live in a house or cage or zoo? Come on. Do you think elephants prefer living in zoos and circuses rather than in the wild? What about lions and tigers? Haven't you seen that great 1966 movie "Born Free" about lions? It's based on a true story.Outcast9428 wrote: ↑December 14th, 2022, 12:01 pmNo animal is happy being “wild and free.” There’s nothing liberating about shivering in the cold every night with no shelter, sweltering in the heat, not knowing where your next meal is coming from, having the threat of getting eaten alive by some predator any day. If my dogs wanted to be wild so badly they wouldn’t refuse to go outside when it’s raining. Nobody actually wants to be wild and free, there’s no actual benefit to living that way other then not having to abide by any rules. But all those rules start to seem really nice once people actually have to live without them.
Why do so many people seem to be anti civilization these days and harbor these weird fantasies about living a more barbaric life or returning to the law of the jungle? Just because we have trannies now? I will honestly take anything over the Ancient, barbaric past. The only thing I can think of being worse is full blown communism and I’m pretty sure everybody nowadays who glorifies the “wild and free” life would instantly beg to return to civilization if they had to actually live through the world they glorify.
Also conservatism is not compatible with this thought process. The entire point of conservative values was to civilize the world, give it structure and order. This is not conservative or traditional thinking, it’s more like downright primitive thinking.
Dogs and cats are different. They were domesticated over many generations, and some say they were genetically engineered to be pets rather than live out in the wild, and that's why they don't do as well in the wild as other animals do.
Haven't you seen horse movies like "The Black Stallion"? They always show horses happier when they are running wild on the plains and prairies.
I also heard that some animals cannot survive in captivity, such as squirrels. If you try to cage one or raise one in a glass box or house, they will die I hear. How do you explain that?