What Would You Do..

[lizbud]

I would bet that nobody would know that either was on the
endangered list.So, probably nothing would happen.

[Lizzie]

I'd let Mother Nature take her course. Intervention by humans too often makes matters worse, even when our hearts are in the right place. I'll never forget watching a film of a large group of people trying to rescue a moose from where it had fallen through ice into the middle of a lake. I know they had the very best of intentions but, to me, it extended the last hours of the animal's life and made them even more traumatic and terrifying. I always beat myself up after one of my cats has died, questioning how I extended their life and whether I only saw what I wanted to see or if they truly got more quality time.

I'm sorry if I've veered off your topic a little, Gina, I hope you don't mind. My question to everyone would be "How do you react when the natural world is about to destroy something you don't want to be destroyed?" If you saw a bald eagle scoop up a kitten (something that very nearly happened to one of my kittens years ago), let's say. Or a hawk zooming in to snatch a wren.

[Vela]

Then I'd let them eat whatever it was they were hunting. Not my place to step in and decide, well not my pets, but a wild animal yeah. It's the way it's supposed to be. The food chain is set up to provide for the higher ups so I'd let them have the wren or whatever it was. It's all a balance. Predators are supposed to and have to hunt the prey, or the prey animals become too abundant, therefore actually starving themselves and us out by eating everything when the land can't support the numbers.


As for the endangered animal eating an endangered plant? Well I wouldn't know if either was endangered, so I'd just keep on walking by LOL.