I agree; I also want to see animals! Discov-....I mean, Animal Planet, *ahem*, has been showing these "survival" shows along the vein of "I shouldn't be alive" lately. One, featured no animals whatsoever. Just a guy stranded on the side of a river after a rafting trip went bad. I forgave this, because the previous was far worse, and that program *did* include a dog. A man was in the South American jungle with his faithful dog when his guides supposedly were talking about murdering him, so he escaped, and goes down the river in a canoe with the dog. He tips, and here was my first warning: after scooping up some supplies that he found on the side of the riverbank, he walks away without so much as calling for his "best friend". I think 40 miles later, the dog catches up. Only to be knocked out and consumed by the man, who had already found plenty of edible foods in the form of berries, but he could not keep them down due to effects of malaria and dehydration/starvation. He couldn't keep his "companion" down either. So, he killed the dog for nothing. The rest of the show I was of course rooting for him to fail, but with the actual survivor narrating, of course that wasn't going to happen! I'm sorry, but there are plenty of people in this world found frozen or otherwise dead who did not resort to eating other people or pets. But since this situation has never happened to me, I guess I can't talk. Frankly I don't think that Animal Planet even cares what garbage they throw up on the screen anymore. After that, the river rafting show was the last thing I watched before never turning on Animal Planet again. It's been almost a month I think. I just can't get it out of my head - it's one thing to watch something like that on Discovery or whatever, but Animal Planet it was disgusting, because I sincerely thought there was no way in hell the man would do it because of the channel it was on. I was wrong. L [Posted in FML 7003]