End the automatically casting animals as movie villians!

I grew up in the pine forests of southeast Georgia, dealt with animals in one manner or another almost every day. My father was a sharecrop farmer, who plowed fields walking behind a mule named "Kit". Many of the young people hunted wild animals for food, for sport, or both; the idea never appealed to me at all. We need fairness in the way animals are viewed; I'm sick and tired of seeing them automatically viewed as villains, or pawns, or both.