Do Animals Have Right?
This is a question that only a human would dream up. Of course they do. But we think for some reason that as a human being how on earth would an animal know what rights are?
Animals do know what rights are but they are not the same as a human right.
Animals have a right to eat off the prosper of the land in wild country and streams. Animals don't write letters to congress or parliament and ask permission they just exercise their right and go for it. No holds barred and they take just what nature will offer them. As frightening as this may sound hungry enough or angry enough they will take you also for food or revenge or whatever is in their minds.
They are not out of their minds when they attack or seek food. The animal kingdom does not have analyst in their domain like the human being. Unlike the human the animal kingdon does not feel the need to "understand" a stranger or the world at large as we are taught that we do. Or the information that we think is necessary to know before we go searching for whatever we are looking for.
The animal kingdom will largely stay clear of the other animals unless there is a territorial invasion much like humans do. If there is an adulterous situation in the mating season, the two males will fight out the situation until one wins for the female's time for reproducation. Unlike the human kingdom where the woman can put her butt into the situation and discuss this rationally and come up with a winnner and a looser in the challenge match. In the animal kingdom the female seems to know what her place is in this situation and she just waits for the winner to aspire. There is no thought on her part if this is "the one" she wants it is a given that the winner takes all. Like it or not she may be stuck with a real sexual dud but he won the match fair and square if he could fight and win for and have her for his prize. The right to fight for his lineage if you like. Today we lay down and accept ours like a bunch of weaklings in the human tribe.
Animals have a right to safety and security. It never ceases to amaze me when I drive through Algonquin Park on Highway 20 in Ontario, how many people with their young children get out of their car and stand looking at a moose either male or female. Although during the summer months it is usually the male who comes out close to the highway looking for the salt water left over from the winter road salt residue in the ditches at the side of the highway none the less they are wild animals. People are told to stay in their car but the media has portrayed the animals as cute little, likeable, cuddly animals and not the beast that they really are. I fear that in search for pleasure and amusement one day a moose probably female will come out and charge a human for a past experience that you are not aware of, but she will be seeking her revenge and some innocent unsuspecting naive spectator standing their watching with amazed trust will get charged and killed by the moose acting out their right to protect itself from the damage caused by a previous human. This is their right although we will not recognize this and the gamers will search out the "killer moose" because she or he has the smell of blood and will kill again and again.
Animals go looking for prey for food, revenge but not for pleasure. Humans go looking for wild life for food and for pleasure and if humans have been wounded or killed by wildlife the human will go in search of revenge also. Once wounded the human and the wild animal have the same instinct in common revenge for the deed.
An animal has the instinct and the right to protect its' young while they are still learning to develop and become the adult nature expected this off spring to be. Somehow the human being has a right to protect to a degree but contained within the law. In the wilds there is no law. The wilds have a survival of the fittest law that guides them during their days. It is the instinctual make-up of wild life. There is no questioning in their minds, if there is danger they react and without a doubt. Humans question and duduce from past precident what they will do or how they will react. We have a time factor and a reasoning ability that is more complicated by life and law itself. An animal is clear and to the point on their decision. That is their right as they are not capable of reason as we are.
Animal's right are without restriction (unless they are in captivity like a Zoo or the such) it is their right to reproduce each and every spring of the year before the foliage is on the trees. They don't ask they just reproduce. Each spring is the right time no matter what the summer may bring. If there is a draught that follows the birthing season and there is not enough food or water to go around then the one who works the hardest at survival will surpass the rest and become the adult survivor of the species. It is a right of passage and a blind faith that propels them into the next generation of off spring.
They also have the right to die on their terms. Some choose to go off into isolation and silently pass off to the other side of their lives and others will provide their carcus for the survival of the other species. That too is their right. As humans we do not provide our earthly bodies for the following generation but we supply of the spoils of our life's little wars and battles to help our own off spring propel their off spring into the battles of human life.
Animals have rights provided by their natural instinct of survival of the fittest and a natural right opposed to a legal and law abiding right made by man. The one difference is that our laws are ever changing but the law of nature never changes. The animal is firm in their belief but the human changes their right with the whim of society. The animal has more mental stability because they are not confused by the voice of mankind they just do what comes naturally. Who is more stable during thier life time Man or the Beast?