Zoo Animals

[therogon]

I live five minutes from a WalMart. I have a love/hate relationship with WalMart; on the one hand, the convenience of being able to basically acquire anything I would ever truly need while shopping at one place is inspiring. Many nights while out of milk or toilet paper or in need of ice cream I thank the gods of consumerism that WalMart exists. On

Comments

[ken_redtail]

Congratulations, dude.

-Ken

[see_me_naked]

yeah I've heard that argument, but I think anyone gets depressed with nothing left to fight for.

[therogon]

I'd totally agree, if I thought absolute laziness was a depressing state to be in. I don't think of animals as "happy" or "sad" though. Nor do I think of people as such. No one is ever really "happy" or "sad" because those are generalizations of feeling that are realy only applicable in conversation. Animals communicate mood by action, so in whatever modality - hungriness, horniness, tiredness, play, etc. - that they are exhibiting mood it isn't entire. Ex - no matter how mad a cat ever seems to be at anyone, it'll always come running when there's food, no grudges. It doesn't seem to recognise the difference between states of hating you and sucking up to you to get goodies. People are much the same way - they'll forget what they were mad about if their alternate needs are somehow pleased. It's a bit more complicated but it works.