All the animals of India are well treated, but I thought it was interesting how they treat their sacred ones. The privileged ones are cows, and catfish and do some pretty extreme things for them.
The cows were a big part of India and its culture. Cows roam the streets, not a scare in their mind. Cows graze in fields, not worried of being shooed away. If you kill a cow on purpose, you get sent to jail. If you eat cow, on purpose or not, you are arrested. When cows stand in the road, the people have to swerve around them. It blows the flies off their backs, so they purposefully do it. Cows are treated better than some people in India.
Another animal that the Hindus love and respect is catfish. They have one spot in Kumbugar where you can feed the catfish treats. There are hundreds of them there, waiting to be fed. Because they get food so much, they are huge fat, and aggressive. Waiting to be the next one fed. The also hold their mouths up like basketball hoops, and those ones get the most food. The catfish had a whole temple built just for them, and are obviously the most sacred fish in India.
