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Wild animals endure illness, injury, and starvation. We should help.
Cecil the lion captured the world’s attention earlier this year when an American dentist hunted and killed him. People were justifiably outraged at this tragedy — so much so, in fact, that they turned against the entire practice of trophy hunting. Numerous airlines responded by banning the transport of a range of hunting trophies on their flights. In October, people were again infuriated when a German hunter shot a 40- to 60-year-old elephant in Zimbabwe.
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We should help so many beings. I can see how wild animals may deserve it more than people, but guess what? Nobody wants to help anyone other than themselves and their families.
That's true. I worked in wildlife rehab for years and just getting people to keep their cats indoors was a overwhelming task.
If you think that's hard, try getting people to keep their snakes, coyotes, wolves, bears, eagles and buzzards indoors. Let alone disease, thirst, hunger, or risk. It's almost like it's hard being prey in this world.