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Animal Cruelty: A Good Reason To Attack (part 2)

© Jacqueline Dell

In my last article "Animal Cruelty: A Good Reason To Attack (part 1)" I talked about the different types of animal cruelty, or abuse. The fact that these types of crimes even continue is a very sad thought, but they do and hopefully by exposing these acts we can help to curb some of the violence perpetrated against animals. I also talked about the fact that by someone acting violent towards animals there is always the chance that a frightened and scared animal will turn around and attack the person right back, hence the title of these two articles. Now for the second part of this two part series.

One of the most amazing cases of a two way attack occurring was at a zoo in Johannesburg, where an armed robber who was fleeing from police wound up jumping into the enclosure of a Mountain Gorilla. Once the male gorilla and the assailant came face to face the gorilla, who was protecting others in his enclosure, ended up being shot three times. Unfortunately, being shot is going to enrage any gorilla, and he turned around and inflicted injuries such as breaking arms and biting the police officers that were in pursuit of the criminal. All turned out well in the end. The robber was caught, the gorilla recovered, and the police didn't hold a grudge. It just goes to prove what an animal will do if provoked or if it is frightened or injured. If you would like to read the full story of this attack, log on to http://.../Gorilla_shot_as_fugitive_seek... Whether we look at the above case as something unusual or unfortunate, the moral of the story is the same. Anyone who hurts an animal may be in line for some retribution. It must be said however, that usually this is not the case. Usually animals that are abused by people are not in any shape to fight back, but beware the dog that is being neglected and hasn't been fed in a long while, it will bite. It seems that it all comes down to people and animals having a mutual respect for one another. "But animals don't know how to respect!" I hear you say. You're right, but very rarely do animals that are being treated properly attack people. If we as a human race respect the animals that have been placed on our planet, then it should be very easy for us to live side by side in peace most of the time.