Nostalgia and a sense that both the bird and the dog are beautiful.

As an aside, I think most of the sadness / anger / angst that people have towards hunting is misplaced. I understand that they are being compassionate and I fully understand (and respect) that they love animals......however that bird had a great life and painless death.

The real horror is modern factory farming....cages where chickens are born into the cage, pumped full of food, and then mechanically dismembered....all while never being free or even seeing the sky. Yet we don't "feel sad" when we see the packaged meat at the store.....

I feel a bit of sadness for the bird that is dead or suffering. While I see it is natural for the dog to want to hunt a bird, my compassionate feelings are what I notice the most. I never have been a hunter, so there is no nostalgia.

Today I have a negative feeling when I see this type of scene. I think as I get older I feel like I have more mercy. I remember that I easily watched those documentaries about life in the jungle, but today, I have no intention of going through that experience

It depends on who I'm empathizing with in the picture. I empathized with the dog first so I thought "good boy."