Originally Posted by ladyislingering

I've never subscribed to that belief. I've found better company, compassion, and happiness in animals than humans (most of the time).

I grew up in the midwest and was disgusted by most of the people around me for the way they treated wildlife, for the grotesque redneck things they'd do. How anyone could look at another species and find it to be of less worth than humans is completely beyond me.

(then again I pretty much hate the "country boy/country girl" lifestyle - it just seems so classless, barbaric, even a little stupid.)