Myriam Ben Salem🦋
2 min readMar 22, 2022

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Thanks, my friend, for stopping by and for your heart! As for animals living in nature, I'm not sure I can't agree when it comes to dogs and cats specifically!

They are SURVIVING in our cruel streets making them easy victims to being killed by drivers - many of whom don't even dare stop and could only be called monsters - or even tortured by some very sick and sadistic souls.

I heard of horrific stories in which the "villains" can be "kids"! I know… that's a very dangerous trend and red flag about how unhealthy parenting is becoming from one generation to another.

Dogs and cats, in particular, are humans' creations. Their ancestors used to be wild animals living peacefully in nature. Selfish, entitled, and exploitative humans decided to domesticate them. Then, they nonchalantly released them in the streets to starve and die even from cold or hot with no access to shelter in many cases.

That's why I deeply believe cats and dogs need to be the community's number one priority! Even if we weren't responsible for creating them in the first place, it is still our responsibility to fix even a tiny part of the harm our species has been inflicting over the years, it seems to me!

As for why they've kept their purity, it's because, unlike humans, they haven't been conditioned and aren't diving into life with such an invasive subconscious program keeping us self-centered without intentionally hurting others and feeding on their suffering to feel better about ourselves - best case scenario!

Even for the most traumatized of those magical beings that we call animals, they merely created a protective wall from humans, the only dangerous thing to them, without it compromising their loyalty toward each other - at least not in the most miserable conditions where food is so in shortage, they need to fight to survive…

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Myriam Ben Salem🦋
Myriam Ben Salem🦋

Written by Myriam Ben Salem🦋

A fur Momma, animal lover & advocate, lifelong learner, storyteller, edutainer, and published author. I write personal stories and essays.

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