(First of all this isn’t intended to boil up a harsh comment war against me. It’s just an observation i have noted.)
Am coming to notice a trend in the amount of cat videos on YouTube, I think they must have surpass the 2 million mark at this point. All the videos shared one common thing that I noticed, the owners of the cat were never Africans, and in very rare cases the pet owners were from the black community. Which raised the question, is it that the black community, especially Africans don’t know how to treat pets or that some people (the other races) have too much time to bond with their pets?????
There are certain animals in Africa that will never be seen as pets, mostly reptiles. Our lists of pets is easily summarized among three popular animals; a dog, a cat and different aquarium fishes; you can see how brief the list is. Americans on the other side have pets ranging from spiders, lizards to snakes. First of all who pets a snake? It doesn’t talk, it doesn’t play and I have never seen a girl coming into a house and say, “Oh this is your python? I love pythons”.
Culturally in Africa a snake is one of those animals that if both of you meet somewhere, one of you will either get hurt or lose their life that day. Yes, it’s the rule of the land. You shouldn’t pet an animal that might one day eat you or bite you and inject a good amount of poison that will either kill you or a part of your body will be separated from the rest of you.
Back to pet videos, we don’t take such videos with our pets because our pets know that we aren’t that close. White people usually let their dogs lick them all over their face, Pause, THAT’S VERY DISGUSTING. If my dog one day does that to me, that will be the day it will be sold to a new owner who can entertain the Bulls***. An African dog knows better not to do that. Even if you give it a beef steak it will wag its tail. Which is the appropriate Thank You from a dog and not licking you.
We define close with our pets as a gentle rub, taking a walk outside or with a lazy cat you can watch the TV together. We don’t teach our pets how to say Thank You like a human. I came across a video of a cat saying NO NO NO like a human. That was really freaky. We let our pets be the animals they have evolved over those years to be. ANIMALS. Not an intelligent version of their species.
So now imagine that in the year 2015, Cats are already Saying NO NO NO and Dogs aren’t afraid to lick you in the public. At this pace.20 years from now they might just form an Animal Union with a board full of animals so that they can sue the uncaring African owner.
Tell me what you think? Feel free to leave a comment down there!!!!!
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