"At the photographer´s" by Johanna Iso-Järvenpää

lol... that's soo cool. Very creative.

So alive!! Queer... Fantastic... The (goat like)unicorn looks as if it might hobble out of the picture any minute...Lovely work with your water colours!!

horses cattle dogs, this list of animals that are selected and bred by humans goes on and on... but few actualy know that we are on that list as well. we breed ourselves. by picking the mates we think are best (in any way). also, animals that are bred like dogs and horses, become different breeds, but still have the same DNA, this is because what changes is the way the DNA is expressed. this often causes the breeds to mimik the imature forms. wolf pups have floppy ears, longish fur, and look like other puppies... dogs (for the most part) have floppy ears untill adulthood, and mostly longish fur (though, some dogs have been bred to have short hair and pointy ears)... adult humans still retain similar features that imature primates have.

I disagree with Martin Krieger. We do not breed ourselves. Breeding is a long-term vision, that should last many generations. For instance, a nation could choose that only people with blue eyes, able to run a marathon, or with a QI higher than 120, have the right to mate, and that for 10 generations, with the goal to breed a race of "superhumans". That is Eugenism.
In the nature, animals choose their mate, and it's not breeding. In wolf packs, only the alfa male and female can mate, the other are there to help them the best they can. It's not breeding. It's natural selection.

I was born on a farm, we bred pure-blood Holstein cows. I presented cows and calves in exhibition almost since my birth, so I never asked myself if it was right or wrong. Not all the animals were good for the exhibitions; but in the end, each ones had to be in contact with humans for being milked. In most cases, those that tamed for the exhibitions were calm and sociable beasts, while the other ones were nervous and traumatized. If only for this detail, I think it's a good thing.

That's a very good question... do we have the right to mess around with what already is naturally? Whatever the answer, though, humans will do it anyways. I've never really been a fan of the idea, myself. (breeding for pure stock is a different story, really, since one would be trying to preserve the natural form of the animal...) As for your image, I think it really gets the idea across, by way of the "owner", looking so pleased with himself for 'creating' something that would never occur naturally. I like the added touch of being a second-hand observer of this image. Very nicely done. ^_^

Oh. My. God. That it so, scary, sick, twisted, horrible, and oh, i just can't think of such a thing. and yet, we do that to everything, everyone, don't we? It's sad

That picture makes me feel bad. It reminds me of a story. People that chatch horses and didn't care for them. All horses died.

Its like a uni falabella

The very thought that,that unicorn is treated like that...
Oh and welldone on this one too!I like the perspective very much.

wow... I love it! I love your idea behind it! And the realisation is awesome You are right, we do not have the right to treat everything around us how we want to do... (brr, bad sentence)! Great idea with the photographer's hands (like a frame)!
Love it!!!