More than animal polemics, I think it left me thinking because of my former phobia in a new light. If aliens do exist, and are studying us in any form, then they're doing exactly the same than a human biologist on Earth to other species. So we could be aliens to other animals, doing weird things that make no sense. Or maybe the alien abduction myth, if it's fictional, took elements from something as terrestrial as animal biology.

It all went wrong when trying to be inventive and tell the story like it was an abduction.