on animals sara yossef
Domesticated animals have been procured to serve a utilitarian purpose to our capitalistic society. The wild oxen and buffalo were whittled down to the modern-day heifer, and we’ve made wolves our living baby dolls. One animal that is of no utility to modern humanity is the frog. While it can be argued that the poison dart frog can be used in a hitman scenario, or perhaps the psychedelic frogs you lick can be of some benefit, but apart from that, the average bullfrog merely exists in our world. It was frogs that dictated the first eleven years of my life. The creek in my backyard was teaming with the amphibious beasts, so much so it became a problem my parents were itching to fix. But they couldn’t as they saw how much happiness the frogs brought me. I captured them, named them, built them aquariums in my room, subsequently lost a few of them in my home, and retrieved their petrified bodies months later, and stored them in a Ziploc bag underneath my bed. 45
