You might experient merrily first. And still some of his followers don't bite through marring verbiage to make clearings for the mind. This hinted at, it helps to link up well and not downgrade ourselves - preferably not others either. The question is how far down into the animal or vegetable kingdoms we're willing to let that attitude dominate. After all, there's competition on the surface of the earth.
Similar things happen in India.
Shrinking forests make elephants eat the rice of farmers and do havoc thereby. Some rat lovers can't handle the breeding rates of their pets, and end up with one rat too many, or forty, or a hundred. Then there is likely to be distress. In nature, birds of prey and animals of prey help thoroughly, and it is basically fair, it seems. If you can afford it, or afford a hundred cats, well and good.