Animals

Animals are a huge part of our ecosystem so I defiantly have lot of respect for them, but I don’t think I can declare myself as a animal lover comparing myself with true lovers! In fact I have to admit that when I was a little girl I don’t used to like animals so much, I was really afraid of them, even cats! That I now love them… but well, luckily I don’t have that stupid “animals-phobia “any more… ah! But bugs are still my weak point! I really really hate them, especially slugs ones.
Now on this days, I have a dog as a pet, his name is Gazu, and is sort of a Coker type of dog, his really unquiet and his mouth stinks but I love him as well, his now 6 years old so I’ve learn to accept him… his the second pet that I have in life, but the first one doesn’t count cause I was too young and I didn’t like him a lot (he was also a dog).
I have a friend who has the weariest per, he has an Axolotl, that in ancient Nahuatl dialect means “water dog”, and it is not a fish but an amphibian, a salamander actually. It is really weird; they have their gills on their heads!! But it’s also so cute, it has little hands that looks like human ones but in miniature. If I could be an animal, ill like to be an axolotl, like in Cortazar tale…
Talking about some bad things to, in my opinion, most of zoos suck! They’ve no properly space for the animals they have and all of them are in pitiful conditions… there are also some zoos that have more space and are not located in the center of the city, like metropolitan zoo, and there the animal are a little better, but any way, the whole concept of zoos is wrong I think; having animals locked up and away from their natural environments can’t be right! An exception is when they need to preserve some species that are about to extinct, and for that reason makes them born in captivity… another big problem: extinction, but that can be a long theme that it might be for other post!