Pet ownership is fukked up

[NotAnFBIagent]

Depends on the animal. I'd never keep a fish in a small ass tank or bird in a cage.

Dogs and cats with good owners live a much better life than ones in the wild though.

 

[Peter Parker]

Dogs are bred to be mentally stunted and only have the intelligence of a 30 day old wolf puppy. Which is fukked up. It's like breeding human beings that don't develop mentally after becoming toddlers.

Cats can survive on their own and actually domesticated themselves for convenience.

Dogs don't work like that, Dogs left alone in the wild will form packs and hunt for food. Hence some areas in the world with roaming packs of feral dogs

 

[HollywoodP]

I feel the same way. If you are gonna own a dog or any animal for that matter you should be going above and beyond to stimulate their mind and giving them the most quality life you can if you love them and are gonna keep them captive.

 

[JNew]

The only moral way to own animals is if you live on a farm with a lot of land. In 2021 owning a dog in a city is kinda dumb...I mean walking a dog always seemed stupid to me even as a child.

 

[SupaHotIce]

My sister in law's cat has never left the house in 2-3 years. Can't even run around because they get mad when it does.

I was gonna have it run around in my garden because they asked me take care of it while they go on vacation, but they cancelled. Cat is a prisoner

 

[djthegreat88]

Life as a wild animal is rough as fukk. Shelter, food, health are not guaranteed. Apex predators live struggle lives. Weak ass dogs or cats don’t stand a chance

I keep a freshwater aquarium. The fish have plenty of space, clean water, compatible tankmates, and no shortage of food. In the wild they’d be food for the next predator

 

[Da King]

you see most of these people who get pets are sad humans so they end up filling that void with a poor animal, you hate to see it

 

[duncanthetall]

Cats live an average of about 3 years in the wild. Like 5x that indoors.

 

[Egomaniacal1]

The problem is the human owners.

There are a lot of ppl who abuse and in general just don’t take good care of pets. I always say there should be a regulatory agency to ensure good standards and compliance of those standards for pet ownership. There’s a great percentage of ppl who own pets now who wouldn’t pass any decency rules for pet ownership and who shouldn’t deserve to have them.

 

[Carlton Banks]

Yeah let them live in the wild where shyt like this happens on the regular

 

[Down With The King]

As a kid i used to feel that way. I remember i found a praying mantis amyd put it in a jar. I felt so bad for keeping it captive i let it go rather quickly.

But honestly as an adult i think it CAN be different. Nature is brutal and life in the wild is short. Providing a animal with a more comfortable existence is a noble thing.

Obviously theres levels to it, but in general having a pet you care about and take good care of is ok.

That's what I think when I see people snapping about wild animals in captivity. Many of these pray animals are living a safer life then they would in the wild. Food, shelter, protection, and companionship.

I don't mean wild animals as in large predator's that could kill the owner and people around them. Leave them be.

 

[Carlton Banks]

I used to feel the same way about neutering. Felt like it was mean and strictly for human convenience. It actually extends life spans and is a major prevention to all sorts of cancer, disease, and other issues

Didn't know this

 

[Down With The King]

Not really. Cats to kill mice, rats or moles. Dogs for multiple reasons....herding sheep, protection, kill moles....

Cats kill...everything.....

Billions of everything.....




Lets keep the cats inside.

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

Cats are natural killers, best mouse trap on the planet.

 

[MMS]

Kinda like us having jobs with steady paychecks and the convenience of grocery stores huh