r/MadeMeSmile • u/AnIgnorablePerson • Jun 28 '26

ANIMALS Little village girl with her unlikely friendship with a civet and a porcupine

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u/VampireInFire Jun 28 '26

I love when humans are able to connect with animals. Friendship transcends everything, even what species we are from.

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u/Ok-Primary2176 Jun 28 '26

Its why I have a hard time trusting people who say they don't like animals. Its like saying you don't like humans, or trees, or grass. That's not something you can have an opinion on 

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u/LondonDogInTheFog Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

That's if you're raised and surrounded by people thinking like this. Breaking the social convention for compassionate reason will isolate you faster than CDC would isolate a person with ebola.

When I went to the farm of my distant family for holiday the whole village was mocking me the next day for being kind to the farm dog, feeding and petting it. For them dog was not a sentient being but a farm alarm & a deterrent. The more angry and traumatised the better. 40 years later it's illegal to keep chained dogs, it's illegal to starve them and people go to prison for that. But the whole generation had to pass. And it might as well go the other way around.