why does people treat animals as animals? get my point? I mean they call animals "it" thing. I refer to them as him & her not it... i think its really rude. animals are same as humans... so what's the big deal? we both have the same common thing, "life" so that means there's almost no difference at all to call animals "it". that's really mean... ( but I didn't think of people being mean when they call spiders, cockroaches & other pesky creepy crawlies "it" because I do that most of the time especially when me being an arachnophobic screaming "kill it" kill it"... can't help it )