Premium said:
If you look at the picture it looks like he's keeping it from drowning in the river. It isn't something I would do, but we don't seem to know the full circumstances.
You say that as if it makes it acceptable or OK. His intentions are immaterial. No one is saying this guy was doing things maliciously. No doubt he had good intentions. Just like the couple who put the baby bison in their car, because it looked cold. Good intentions- but the completely wrong action which actually caused more harm. They took a calf that might or might not have died, and doomed it to certain death.
These are wild animals. In nature. Nature is metal. Things drown and die every day. Calves get left behind. Occasionally it's just bad luck. Sometimes it's because the herd can smell/sense the calf has a weakness or disease that poses a larger risk to the herd as a whole. This guy is the one who doesn't know the context or full circumstance, and took it upon himself to "save" the calf. That was wrong, period, as is clearly posted/instructed/know.
