Get a grip on reality. Pretty please.

Dear people-who-make-animal-documentaries-with-cutting-edge-photography,

You don't know me but I am a woose.  A sooky-la-la.

I am the person you find rescuing water-logged snails and worms after the rain

and taking them to the safety of higher, dry land.

I am that person apologising to each and every ant that she has to spray

when her kitchen gets an infestation of (innocent, hard-working and generally all round good guy)

ants invading.

(blogs.discovermagazine.com)

I am the person who choses to believe that Old Yeller

went off to Grandpa's farm.

(rankeverything.blogspot.com)

I am the person who rescues any spider that needs to be located from indoors to outdoors.

Well, OK, I am the person who hands the jar to her hubby and says "bloke's job"

(disclaimer- any spider with a little red spot on its butt ends up in spider heaven,

even if it is outside minding its own business)

I am the person who cried in an episode of "Walking with Dinosaurs"

(OK I was all types of pregnancy-hormonal at the time)

(tvguide.com)

Get the idea?

I saw my fair share of horror stories during my veterinary years as I did a lot of RSPCA case reports.

I know what "the food chain" is.

I know what "survival of the fittest" means.

(wildlifedtv.blogspot.com)

So when I watch a migration documentary,

where some hoofed mammals need to cross the crocodile infested river

as part of their journey,

I know what is coming even before the narrator says

"The hungry and waiting crocodiles know instinctively which members of the herd

are those that they should target"

Yes, the crocodiles

(Which also need to eat to survive. I get that)

are picking off the littlies.

But, in case, you missed it the first time,

let's show you another example.

And another.

And here's one close up.

And here's one in slow-mo.

Oh, and just in case you need more,

let's show the croc pulling back one that thought it had made it safely to the other side to its mum.

Really- I got it the first time.

I don't care if it is Sir Richard Attenborough narrating.

I don't care if this is "never-before-seen" footage

that took 6 and 1/2 years and 5 million dollars to capture on film.

I don't care if this is the harsh realities of life.

My kids certainly aren't ready for such a brutal version of real life yet.

It is hard enough explaining exactly what happened to Nemo's mum and gazillion siblings

or to Bambi's mother

or to Charlotte

without causing distress.

(listal.com)

Give me a Disney happy ending any day.