I was playing 'what noise does a ... Make' with Sienna, taking it in turns and she said to me
"What noise does a bug make?"
Well, she's three years old, so instead of asking which bug in particular, (I only know bee, fly and cricket) I made it up....
"Kshkshksh"
"No Mummy. They say brrrrrrrr".
Fair enough. One might. My turn. Easy one.
"What about a horse?"
"Hmm, clip clop clip clop".
Can't really argue with that. Her turn again.
"What noises can hippos do, Mum?".
Now I'm certain I have never heard a hippo make any sound other than a yawn. So that was my answer.
"Mummy, I don't think you're very good at this game".
Why can't she ask me what noise a dog makes? Or a bird, even a chicken or something?? When your three year old daughter asks questions you need google for, you know your lacking a whole department somewhere.
But really, I sat afterwards thinking about it. There are millions of animals that don't make a noise. Rabbits, fish, lizards, hippos, giraffes, snakes. And so many others I wouldn't have a clue either way. Like antelope, cranes, newts or koala bears. I've only ever seen silent ones.
Perhaps it's shyness or pure shock at the fact that we're filming them or throwing the leftovers of our spicy hot wings at them in a zoo. It's sad really, we made them lose their voices. Just through trauma or something.
I saw an advert telling people to please not go to circuses anymore because they make the elephants sit down like people and pull them on chains with spikes on. It was really quite sad because no one can save them. Circus people are scary. I wouldn't chance a kicking from a sprayed up clown or one of those blokes that can throw his wife up in the roof. Circus people are dead tough and creepy and they are the only people I know that could scare a six tonne animal with a spiky face into sitting like a dick with a stupid hat on.
It's the same with the dancing bears. Bears are hard. Whoever can catch one and make it dance will be left well alone, I assume. How the hell do you CATCH a bear? How do ou teach it to dance? And how do you force it to do it on demand. It makes me feel sick the way people treat animals. And no ones stopping them because they're really frightened of them. You'd think the governments of these places would have thought of a way to outsmart these people by now. Or even sneak in at night and set the animals free or something.
They killed a whale once because some people in America made it do tricks for people at Disney or somewhere. But then it got too old so they retired it and set it free. Except it didn't know how to be free and hunt and find where to live or some friends and a wife. So it got really sad and cold and hungry and it just died by itself. I got really upset about it because I was about ten.
But if I was a bear I'd just maul the guy to death and run. Or if I couldn't I'd rather die than be treated so badly. If you're a whale you can't do much really. So we should definitely be able to save whales. The circumstances in which you see these things happening are unexpected sometimes too which makes it more shocking. If you see a bear dancing or a circus advertising animals, don't go. And ring an animal charity for help. I don't think you can ring the RSPCA because its for pets but there will be others. We can't keep hurting them because we might kill them all . It's basic human rights. It's got to be against them.
I feel like running off and buying a bucket with a lid and going charity shaking for the animals but I'd get ignored. Because no one listens to horrible stories when they're trying to shop because they feel guilty. Plus the news is always sad anyway, so there's no point really.
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