A dream about monsters

The setup (to the patchy extent that it made consistent sense): quasi-fantasy setting, monsters exist, as much larger and more dangerous versions of regular animals, with the full range of sentience from bug to human but a natural tendency towards extreme violence.

The context is I've been thinking about the worldbuilding around monsters in Stardew Valley.

Content note: death. I feel like there's also some Problematic Subtext to all this but such is the nature of my subconscious.
( cut for being a dream )