The intelligence you see in your pet is by and large necessary for the predator skills they have. Think about the daily challenge a wild creature experiences and the cunning necessary in order just to eat. Your pet has not lost these innate abilities and not having them stimulated in some way through indoor and outdoor play and exercise is not only unhealthy, but can lead to abnormal behaviors such as barking, chewing, aggression, spraying, depression, hyperactivity, and loss of health.
Anyone who has observed a kitten in the backyard or woods for the first time, or taken a puppy on his/her first walk, understands how much of a travesty an exclusively indoor life is to companion animals. Place your pet in an outdoor element and watch an undeniable sense of belonging, interest, engagement, and purpose emerge.
Regular exposure to nature and the outdoors tremendously enriches pets' lives.
Our choice to have a dog or cat comes with an obligation to find the best pet food, yes, but also with an obligation to permit them their natural element as much as possible. They need regular doses of the life nature intended them to have.
Video: Man accepted into lion pride
This South African animal behavioralist built up trust and confidence with a pride of lions over the course of many years, and is now accepted by the pride as one of their own.
Thought for the day: "I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground." – Abraham Lincoln (Reply to friend who chided him for delaying them by stoppping to return a fledgling to its nest.)
Word for the day: starch - verb: polysaccharide carbohydrate consisting of a chain of glucose units. Starch granules are found in all common carbohydrate food sources such as wheat, rice, potatoes and corn, and are broken down into sugars through digestion. Starch is, essentially many sugars, a polysugar.
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