Owning pets is not moral and I think it's strange how normalized it is to have pets
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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Is it different for you if someone said having pets or “animal friends” instead of owning?
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Yes! I still question myself because I adopt when I can just so they don't stay in the streets, but I don't call my family of dogs pets. I treat them with respect and don't judge them based on human prejudices, but the rest of the people expects me to treat them as inferior and disrespect them ;:/
And guess what?: those people are usually the ones that are abusive to the dogs/cats that live with them.
I agree. The one caveat being that there are thousands of animals in shelters who are going to live in cages for years until they're killed. If the alternative is someone can adopt them and give them a happy life in a loving home, that's the obviously better option.
Breeders can go fuck right off, though. Every cat or dog bred into existence condemns an animal in a shelter to die.
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