Teaching animals and controlling them is proof that we are superior beings and animals are lesser lifeforms or lower lifeforms

 

Maybe many of us view animals as lesser lifeforms because of our understanding of the earth. Taming the animals, it’s also believed that many years ago when the human population began to increase, human beings also began to tame some animals. We began to tame the animals that we believed were going to be of greater use to us.

Dogs are smart, and generally friendly animals

This is evident when you look at animals like dogs. Dogs are generally friendly to their owners. They protect their owners and if the owner likes hunting, dogs can be at the forefront of the hunting activity. A dog can sacrifice its life for its owner, hoping that the owner will find a way to protect it or heal it if it’s injured. All it ever wants is to see the owner okay, alive and well.

If a person is not well, a dog becomes worried. A story in the Bible says that there was a man called Lazarus, and this man was sick. This man, in his state of poverty and sickness, developed sores. Some people believe that dogs’ saliva heals sores or wounds, so some people believe that the dogs were both comforting Lazarus and trying to heal him at the same time.

The unlikely friend of a dog is the cat. Both cats and dogs are household pets, considered less dangerous pertaining to carrying pathogens and also in violent behaviours. Cats fight rats and snakes, so they keep the house safe, and maybe that was one of the reasons why our human ancestors domesticated cats. Indeed, cats are unfriendly creatures, but it seems the benefits of domesticating the cat outweighs the risk of having a cat as a pet.

Keeping the livestock

By nature, human beings are consumers. The more the population grows the more resources human beings need. It’s said that ancient people were gatherers who lived by gathering seeds and also hunting animals in the forests and bushes. As the human population grew, there was a need for a stable supply of both seeds and animals in order to make sure that communities don’t run out of staple food. Some people say that that’s how we began to keep livestock when we realized we could have cattle for both meat and milk and also its hides for clothing and other purposes. There were also animals that we kept to make them do our hard work, some of which are donkeys, horses and elephants.

As far as animals are concerned, pets are not these cute animals, but pets are there in our homes to protect us. Dogs are able to discern evil spirits, whether the evil spirits are within live people or dead people. Dogs howl when they sense evil spirits. Dogs are generally friendly and loyal to their owners. Cats hung snakes and rats. This makes households secure from snakes which can be very dangerous or even deadly and rats which have tendencies to vandalize a place.

Are animals really lesser lifeforms?

Based on our outlook on life, many people assume that animals are lesser or lower lifeforms. We believe that human beings are smarter than animals since animals do not build skyscrapers or develop superior transportation as we do. This is all based on assumption.

Birds can travel from one continent to another continent. That is not a coincidence, they do that purposefully. Even smaller birds might try and sneak into some ships in order to try and find themselves on the other side of the world. Big birds may fly many weeks from one continent to another. They survive, and some fly to and fro, seasonally. This is all not random, it’s calculated. From my experience with animals, I can attest that animals are not lower lifeforms. Animals are intelligent, with the ability to be trained, the ability to love and protect, and also with the ability to communicate their emotions. People see a donkey honking and they laugh, but it’s communicating its emotions. Animals also may also reflect on your emotions, they observe a person closely. This is why when you are sad, your dog becomes sad by your side, and if you are happy it becomes happy with you. When I was heading cows and goats, I would pass with the head a barren field and I’d make all animals prance. Some people believe that only colts prance because they are young and vibrant, but that’s not the case. All animals, when a mood is triggered they become happy. Animals connect with people, and they may even growl in an effort to try and convey their emotions.

Generally, it’s wrong to compare our built environment to the habitats of animals. Birds stitch nests because that’s how they want to live, some burrowing animals make decent habitats for themselves. Look at all that effort! The animals do exactly what they need to do, nothing more and nothing less. Remember, we, human beings, weave cotton and make clothes for example, because without them life is hard since our bodies are sensitive to harsh weather, but animals have fur and some feathers. Essentially, we mustn’t expect animals to strive for what they do not need, so animals and people are incomparable. Those are some reasons enough why we should question the notion that animals are lesser lifeforms.