Polar Bears have been known to swim distances a lot longer than the distance between Hydra Island and the main Island. When Sawyer figured out the trick with the fish biscuit to get out of the cage, Tom mentioned that the bears figured it out faster than he did thus indicating that someone (probably DHARMA,) were testing the bears' problem solving abilities. With DHARMA gone, the animals were free to ditch the cages and live out their lives.

Kate's horse was probably a manifestation of the Smoke Monster.

The dynamite was only unstable because it was 200 years old….not to mention the statue had 4 toes.

Jack was meant to die in the original version of the pilot and Kate was meant to be the main character.

The rest (except maybe walt and the numbers) are pretty stupid questions that don't really need answering at all

Question #1 – Stuff that are slipped isn't part of the show so not really an issue

Question #2 – Dharma where doing research involving animals not that uncommon in research to use animals, what about the other animals, maybe still wandering the island, self died or killed by dharma.

Question #3 – As said they have not stopped there is just a long time in between them and even if the dharma staff was gone Desmond was still in the hatch. An about the old beer, Sawyer is s a tough guy with a stomach of steel.

Question #4 – The people running Dharma are even more incredibly rich and powerful then Withmore and very secretively.

Question #5 – This I think will be answered.

Question #6 – Wans't he acting all loonie in the beginning? Typical symptoms of sleep deprevation.

Question #7 – It got unstable by being in a moist jungle for 200 years.

Question #8 – It wasn't Walt it was MIB using his body?

Oh please. They were improvising. They knew all they had to do was put out some crap that seemed mystical and mysterious and crowds of wanna-be intelletuals would eat it up and they’d paid nicely by ABC. That show has so many plotholes, so many things about changed to SUIT WHAT WAS POPULAR it’s very obvious to me that likability was more important than a good storyline. Examples: Three unpopular female characters were cut from the series, I don’t remember names and LOST is not worth the time to look them up even to prove a point, but they were the blond girl Hurly was beginning to have romantic feelings for (I guess the fans felt big guys don’t deserve love as much as lean doctors, female fugitives and killers with long hair), the latina cop who was killed by Michael’s father because Benjamin told him to, and the high-maintenence rich girl she killed on the island. At the end they just decide to make the smoke monster the villain, but don’t even once have any idea what to make its evil goals – All the creators could think of was “just don’t let him off the island!” And millions of people watched 100-something or more episodes of his trash, twice as many seasons long as it was suposed to be, just enjoying being strung along.

Kate was meant to be the hero once they killed Jack off, but decided against it because they didn’t want to give the audience all that hope in Jack just to kill him off.