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Be careful what you wish for. The (nonhuman) animal world is much more ruthless than the human one, despite all our own ruthlessness.

Prey animals in the wild often die more awful deaths than what even slaughterhouses see.

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And even predators in the wild don’t die under professional care in a hospital bed surrounded by loved ones. It’s probably a violent death or starvation.

I did falconry once and found it impressive that the captive birds had a mean life expectancy of 22 years while the wild ones had just 9. The reason was starvation. You get injured and can't hunt? You starve. You age a bit and aren't quite fast enough to catch mice anymore? You starve.

Civilization's ability to let us specialize, combined with private property, really allows humans to achieve amazing lives compared to the often romanticized other options.

I did the other side - I’ve had pet house rabbits. A wild rabbit is apparently lucky to make it to 2 years. High probability it gets gruesomely torn apart and eaten alive by predators.

Meanwhile a house rabbit can live on average 8-10 years, even as long as 12-15.

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