By now I am sure you have seen the
video, it has been all over the internet, where a little boy is
playing in his driveway and a dog comes up behind him, grabs the
boy's leg in his mouth and begins to drag him when the family cat
springs forth and leaps at the dog, freeing the little boy.
I watched the video and admittedly
I was fairly impressed by what the cat did. Now I am not going to
try to climb into the cat's head and understanding the reasoning
behind its behavior, I was just impressed by what it did. I was not
impressed with the video however.
You see, the video is edited
together, not in a bad way, everything fits chronologically and all,
but it is obvious from watching it that more than one security camera
was used and that both cameras were on the property of boy's home.
What is worrisome to me is that, at some point, one or both of the
boy's parents thought to themselves, you know what would be cool, if
we edited together footage of a dog using our son as a chew toy.
Even better, after crafting this little piece of video together, then
the licensed it to Junkin Media, so now they are profiting off of
their son being attacked. Mind you, the family are now also being
treated as celebrties, they are doing tons of media interviews about
their heroic cat, hell the cat is scheduled to throw out the first
pitch at a baseball game (though I am not sure just how that
happens).
Maybe this is just me being old fashioned, and admittedly I am not a parent so I am not speaking
from experience, but I would like to think that if I were and one of
the neighborhood dogs had attacked my child my first, second, or even
third thought would not be, I wonder how I can make money or garner
any glimmer of celebrity off of this. I wouldn't be viewing and
editing security camera footage together to get the best possible
angles of my child being viciously attacked. I would like to think I
could find better ways to make money than by exploiting my own
child's suffering. But that is just me, and given the internet
fascination over the video and subsequent media fascination over the
family in general I guess I am the only one that feels this way.
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