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The more I think about it, the more I can't justify the idea of pets.
I have other reasons for feeling this way, but most recently what got me going is looking into raw feeding of pets. I don't have a problem with raw feeding specifically, it's just that when you give a dog kibble it's dry and uniform and you don't think about what it's made of, but look at pictures of someone's cat chewing on a chicken wing and you can't ignore that other random animals are being slaughtered for the sake of keeping this other random animal alive based on that one is a chicken and the other is someone's "pookie-wookie". And the worst part isn't even that other animals are being killed but that they're being raised in pretty sickening conditions (factory farms), which I can't even justify for the sake of feeding *humans*. To raise animals that way then use them to feed pets has to be one of the most indulgent ideas that human beings have ever come up with.
If someone were in a position where they were hunting all their animal food and feeding, like, their sled dog the scraps then I'd mostly be okay with that, being that the animal being eaten had lived a natural life and the animal it was being fed to wasn't around purely for the entertainment value to the human.
It's also not that I would never own a pet. I would never buy a carnivorous pet from a breeder, but adopting one from an animal shelter wouldn't be perpetuating the notion. And I really do feel for living animals, which is the whole point in the first place. I guess if I did end up with a carnivorous pet, though, I'd have to turn it on to a mainly vegetarian diet, even if it probably wouldn't be the healthiest thing for that individual animal.
I have other reasons for feeling this way, but most recently what got me going is looking into raw feeding of pets. I don't have a problem with raw feeding specifically, it's just that when you give a dog kibble it's dry and uniform and you don't think about what it's made of, but look at pictures of someone's cat chewing on a chicken wing and you can't ignore that other random animals are being slaughtered for the sake of keeping this other random animal alive based on that one is a chicken and the other is someone's "pookie-wookie". And the worst part isn't even that other animals are being killed but that they're being raised in pretty sickening conditions (factory farms), which I can't even justify for the sake of feeding *humans*. To raise animals that way then use them to feed pets has to be one of the most indulgent ideas that human beings have ever come up with.
If someone were in a position where they were hunting all their animal food and feeding, like, their sled dog the scraps then I'd mostly be okay with that, being that the animal being eaten had lived a natural life and the animal it was being fed to wasn't around purely for the entertainment value to the human.
It's also not that I would never own a pet. I would never buy a carnivorous pet from a breeder, but adopting one from an animal shelter wouldn't be perpetuating the notion. And I really do feel for living animals, which is the whole point in the first place. I guess if I did end up with a carnivorous pet, though, I'd have to turn it on to a mainly vegetarian diet, even if it probably wouldn't be the healthiest thing for that individual animal.