RE: Help Extradite Another Scumbag Hunter
August 4, 2015 at 9:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2015 at 9:25 pm by Regina.)
You can technically make a pet out of any animal you want to, but that doesn't mean they should be pets.
Some animals truly are wild, and have not adapted to life alongside humans. Dogs, and to a lesser extent, small cats have adapted to thrive on life alongside humans, through thousands of years of sustained contact and domestication, and therefore make amazing pets. That's not the case for a lot of other animals and it's just stupidity taking some things as pets, like snakes, large wild cats, spiders, etc.
This one (typical) white woman thought it was cute that her "pet" python was lying next to her in bed... what she didn't realise was that snake wasn't lying next to her for comfort, it was sizing her up for a big meal. These "wild" animals probably couldn't care less about whether you'll still own them tomorrow and would survive better out in the wild, and if they are predatory they are a great danger to the owner (especially if the owner has small children). There's also some potential ethical issues about keeping animals locked up in tanks which are too small for them.
I'm also against killing for sports, killing purely for skin/fur apart from when it's life or death, destructive genetic and hormonal manipulation of animals, and any "religious practice" of animal slaughter, like Halal, that is inhumane by modern standards.
Some animals truly are wild, and have not adapted to life alongside humans. Dogs, and to a lesser extent, small cats have adapted to thrive on life alongside humans, through thousands of years of sustained contact and domestication, and therefore make amazing pets. That's not the case for a lot of other animals and it's just stupidity taking some things as pets, like snakes, large wild cats, spiders, etc.
This one (typical) white woman thought it was cute that her "pet" python was lying next to her in bed... what she didn't realise was that snake wasn't lying next to her for comfort, it was sizing her up for a big meal. These "wild" animals probably couldn't care less about whether you'll still own them tomorrow and would survive better out in the wild, and if they are predatory they are a great danger to the owner (especially if the owner has small children). There's also some potential ethical issues about keeping animals locked up in tanks which are too small for them.
I'm also against killing for sports, killing purely for skin/fur apart from when it's life or death, destructive genetic and hormonal manipulation of animals, and any "religious practice" of animal slaughter, like Halal, that is inhumane by modern standards.
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