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A new book by French journalist Jean Jacque Barloy has the title Man
and Animal. It tells a long history of the relationship that human beings have
with animals. It shows that men can often be cruel, but that sometimes men treat
animals better than they treat other people.
In ancient Egypt, people believed that the cat was God. When a cat died,
its owners showed their sadness by the strange habit of shaving their eyebrows
off! ! ! More recently, in the last century the famous English writer Charles
Dickens had a cat who was very fond of him. The cat didn’t like to see Dickens
working very hard. At night when the cat wanted to say “Stop writing!” to his
master, he often put out the candle with his paw.
In Greece bulls are sacred animals as according to the mythology Zeus
once became a bull in order to take his beloved Europa to a remote place. Their
national ancient amusement was playing with a bull or jumping over the bulls.
Dragons are respected in Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan.
Italy is a country with odd traditions. All Italians hate cats. But they love
dogs and make dishes with them.
Dogs are our favourite animals now. They are known as Brownies or
“domovye”.
Even 9000 years ago Greeks and Persians had dogs as pets. However,
when animals become pets, the result after a number of generations is a smaller
animal with a smaller brain. Rabbits, which live as pets in a garden in a wooden
box, are much less intelligent than their wild cousins.
Some people are keen on dogs, others - on cats, but there are rare people
who are passionate about spiders, for example, tarantulas. They may have a big
collection of these pets and each pet might have its own name. For some people
they are part of their families. In order to feed spiders the owner must breed
crickets. Spiders also eat locusts, cockroaches and other obnoxious things once
a week, because that’s all they need. In the wild they’ll sometimes go six
months without feeding, because they don’t stay from their burrows – they sit
there and wait for the food to come to them. Of course it doesn’t always come.
For such eccentric people spiders are so graceful and beautiful that they get lost
for words when they are holding them. Some people will shudder at the idea
that this awful creature covers both hands. It is true that 90 per cent of the
population will be terrified. This terror is absolutely justified. Spiders, like
every creature in the world, can be aggressive towards human beings. Their bite
is equivalent of a bee sting. This fact puts off a lot of people from keeping them.
But tastes differ and we can’t judge these odd people.
It’s well known that tortoises are extremely popular among pet lovers.
Their passion about them can be almost mad. Some people, when die, leave
thousands of dollars or pounds to their favourite pets, but nothing to their
relatives. In these cases pets might lead a more luxurious life than people.
Of course, men don’t always keep animals for pleasure. Many animals
have to work for their masters, like the teams of husky dogs, which still work in
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