Should animal attacks really be that suprising?

I thought of this subject after the killing of the veteran whale trainer a while ago. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmazingAnimals/whale-kills-trainer-sea-worlds-shamu-staduim/story?id=9932526. This link I have given you takes you to the article on the killing. My thoughts on the subject were that we should not mess with wild animals. This is not the first time a killer whale has attacked a person. Yet we still put people in the water with an animal that weighs over 12,000 pounds. This is a tragedy don't get me wrong. It is just we are suprised that a wild animal has attacked a person. People might say that it wasn't a wild animal, it was an animal that grew up in captivity. I will tell these people that they are wrong. Any animal is still an animal and will always keep their basic instincts no matter where they are. Timothy Treadwill was a man who lived with bears for many years and he was an expert in his field, but he got to close to a certain bear and it killed and ate him. No matter how well you know the animal they are all not the same. There is a new show on Animal Planet (http://www.animalplanet.com/) that is called Fatal Attractions. If you go to this website and then go to fatal attractions and look for "Travis the chip 911 call" you will be shocked. This show deals with people who get close to their animals and out of the blue they attack. . This site is a link to one of the shows. This particlular piece is a call from Sandra Herald to the police talking about how her PET chimp is attacking her freind. This attack leaves her freind with no hands or nose and almost all the bones in her face crushed. If you watch it you will be suprised to hear what the owner says at the end of the video. Other pet attacks include tigers, lepords, snakes, and komodo dragons. Also note this is not the first time a chimp has attacked a person and almost killed them. I have named the most abnormal animals for attacks.
Dogs are mans best freind right? In 2007 33 people were killed by dogs, 23 in 2008 and 33 in 2009. Just this year alone as of right now there has been 8 fatal dog attacks. Dogs killing poeople! Yah I know right! 77.5 dogs are owned in the US. Dogs are not the only regular household pets to hold resposible for attacks, cats have also been know to attack their owners. Even though we call them domesticated they still are animals and we as people should respect that. All animals have their limits. A lot of the time people push them over and then people get attacked. Respect all animals even if they are your pet because at heart they still have their wild instincts.

Cited sources
http://www.dogbitlaw.com/
http://www.animalplanet.com/
http://www.humansociety.org/issues/pet_overpopulation/facts/pet_ownership_statistics.html

"US troops withdrawing en mass from Haiti"

This article was in the Yahoo news today. I was just looking through to see what to do my blog on today, see if anything interesting was on that I could talk about. I saw this article and I stopped looking right there. I immediately opened up the article and started reading. As I read on and on I became angry with the whole article. We are pulling out so fast and so soon after the earthquake. The interviews with some of the Haiti residents said that they were happy with us helping and wished we could stay. We can stay in Iraq though, even when they are still attacking us becuase they want us to leave. I believe this is so stupid. We will stay where we are not wanted, but scram where we are needed. At the end of the article a person left a comment that said, "How can we get out so fast here, no oil?" These made me smile. I think the reason for the smile is becuase I think it's true. There is nothing there that we want or need, so we can just get up and leave. My own opinion is that we should stay. We are doing a good thing. We are helping clean the place up and keeping crowd control. This is just another example of the US prioritizing. We would wrather help ourselfs then others. We come off as a nice country but when it comes down to it, we stay where thier is something we want.