Pet Peeve

People consider themselves superior to other people for all sorts of delusional reasons, and if you tried to think about them all you'd have little time for anything else. But I do have a particular concern about people who think they have a special bond with large predatory animals. Timothy Treadwell famously felt this way about bears, until he discovered extremely late in his life that at least one bear didn't feel that way about him. Now there's word that a Canadian fellow who considered his pet tiger to be a family member was mauled to death the other day. It's not my business and all, I know that, but if being around large predators makes you feel special, maybe you should find another way to feel special. Personally I play a little piano and it makes me feel a little special. I make plenty of mistakes, but not once have I made a mistake where the piano jumped on me in response and tore my trachea out. See the difference?