Chris Bacon wrote:
andrew fox wrote:

Janet Baraclough wrote:

Jaques d'Alltrades contains these words:

Somewhere I've a book which includes a pic of a couple of rats
carrying-off a large egg. One at is hugging the egg while the other rat
drags the egg-hugger by the tail.


IIRC it's in Beatrix Potter :-) Possibly the one where some dastardly
animal tried to make a roly-poly pudding out of Tom Kitten.


"The Tale of Samuel Whiskers". A great favourite!


I really hated BP books because the animals were so horrible to
each other.


that is called amthropomorphism or similar! its when animals are
characterised as being human, that is why they are so nasty to each
other to be like us! its done to aliens in scifi and "god" all the time


Animals *are* nasty to each other. Am I missing something here?

generally animals kill to eat
humans kill each other because they beleive in a slightly different
brand of god
have you ever heard of northern ireland, the tudors and the hugenots etc
, and nazi germany
animals dont do stuff like that to each other, and in fact neither do
women very much , exept a few tudor queens of course

andrew