Rocky wrote:
PunkyKat wrote:
I've always been apprehensive around dogs and I wonder if it's because they stared me down and I always found being stared at a threat. I look at my lizard's eyes now and then but I don't stare at her but no, I don't think I make eye contact with animals and I definatly do not with people.
I think that many animals (other than one's pets) will view prolonged eye contact as a threat and will sometimes become upset and/ or aggressive. I once went on a tour of a wild animal sanctuary that my nephew did volunteer work for. We were able to get very close to one of the tigers (only a chain link fence between us) and one of us stared too long into its eyes. It suddenly lashed out with its claws. Of course none of us did that again and the person who did it wouldn't have if she had known it upsets some animals.
Cats seem to hate eye contact the most. I think that's why people who keep tigers and such get mauled because they don't know any better. I want to get a pet tiger in the future, I'm not against it if the person can take care of them properly and treat them with respect. I plan to tell the local kids I feed tresspassing children to it to keep them off my yard. I don't think I would ever get attacked because I'd never look in it's eyes. I don't like to be stared at and if someone is dumb enough to do it I want to fight them. This baby at the store kept staring me down the other day and when I tried to look away it would folllow me with it's eyes. I got this urge to attack it and when the baby would not stop staring I went to another part of the store because I figured the baby did not know any better.
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03 Jun 2010, 11:56 pm
