I believe you greatly underestimate the Human species.

I guess I became a Debbie Downer because of some horrific things I saw growing up long before the World Wide Web.

My first cousin, Alicia, chased me with a horse when I was a boy. Schoolmate Kim Kennedy lived in something of a ranch in Clay, Alabama. Oh–always feed horses with an apple placed on an open palm–otherwise you can lose fingers

Simple animal husbandry can be deadly:
https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/warning-distressing-video-mare-kills-stallion.819461/

My lady-friend Debra, who passed away due to cancer surgery complications, had a niece who she loved to visit. The toddler loved to zip around–on the hardwood floor.

Debra and the girls’ Mom were chatting away while I was wincing….all I could do was envision the tyke busting her head wide open.

Fortunately a couch that had nothing but pillows on it was close at hand–the tot started to bobble backwards a few steps. I slid a pillow across the floor right before she fell backwards and onto it.

As Debra and I were leaving, I heard the inevitable thud followed by wailing

Parents all fear baby’s first real fall. It reminded me of Dad falling after answering the hospital call on the phone following a procedure

I had guided him to bed–with a phone next to it. He was stubborn and wouldn’t use it. I had just sat down and heard him trying to hang up the receiver. I turn around and saw him pass out and fall before I could get to him–having followed him all day to keep just that from happening in the first place.

I wish these fool secretaries would learn to call patients a day or two AFTER patients return from hospital to give them time to sleep off medications.

I don’t know why I told you all that, except to let you know where my deep pessimism comes from.

Yet here we sit, watching a donkey play with a rubber squeaky-chicken. I’ll admit, I watched it too.

This is possibly the nadir of the human species.

There is footage out there of deer eating fledglings.

Stallions can do to foals what that burro did to the rubber chicken:

Viewer discretion and all that:

https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/5bx2os/horse_viciously_attacks_new_foal_and_throws_it/

Had a young mother carrying a newborn fainted-and the baby cried–it may easily have suffered the same fate as the foal and the chicken.

Nature is far from innocent.

The scene of the wolf dog coming apart in John Carpenter’s THE THING was likely inspired by stories of lunar births seen in barns from time to time.

I myself heard my parents speaking in hushed tones (thinking I was asleep) about dog-headed babies when extended family members would visit. Vernon, Alabama was my state’s Dunwich.

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Had a friend with a German Shepard that was the same way about a garden hose. Turn it on to moderate flow, and the dog would grab the end and go to town. Turn the hose off, and he would start whimpering and nosing the hose.

That was terrifying!

The burro of Diomedes

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