This is what it has come to?

As a kid, I loved Animal Planet because of all of the useful information that it provided to a young city girl that was curious about the beautiful animals found all around the world. I used to watch it all the time and for a while even considered becoming a marine biologist.

I'm watching some foolishness on Spike TV called Urban Tarzan. It stars an early-era Billy Ray Cyrus look-a-like called Urban Tarzan and his side kick, Cave Man, that looks like the chubby dude from Varsity Blues but bald. They go around town helping people capture 'wild animals'. In between scenes, they give voice overs describing what they're doing, why they're doing it and what tools they're using. Their customers are people that took acting classes from the Barbizan School of Entertainment.

Customers have reported deadly scorpions, chimpanzees with cough syrup addiction and even a cougar in an inner-city junk yard. They even had a pair of skunks running rampant in s sorority house.

I sat in disbelief for 30 minutes. My elementary school-aged child could have put together a better script and selected better actors. The problem is that my child wouldn't allow these fools to hurt these animals.

Why are we given shows like this that build on man's fear of animals? A natural fear or reverence for the wild power they have is healthy but so is informing the public on REAL scenarios that could ACTUALLY happen and how to respond or who to call.

This is just bull pucky. No more fake animal shows. Leave it to Animal Planet to cover this. Spike get back to showing T & A to immature man-children that waste their money on beer and weed.

"Why are you the way that you are?...I hate...so much about the things that you choose to be..."