Addendum: If you're going to get upset and rant about how BSL is evil, make sure to specify you mean in regards to animals. Or the British deaf community will get terribly upset with you. ♥
Oh heavens, I just realized I've been complaining about it for days on Twitter, just saying BSL on account of saving space. Well. Shame on me for not realizing that meant different things.
I wish people were more aware and would get information before getting pets. I (used to - i'm taking a break) work at the SPCA in the exotic animal department, and it's INSANE how many piggies and bunnies we get back because owner didnt know what they were getting into before getting them :(
I went for my first orientation session at the Humane Society here tonight. SO. MANY. BUNNIES. If I could ban one thing, it would be giving animals as presents -- especially bunnies at Easter. Nothing irks me more.
It's the stupidest idea I have ever heard. DONT GIVE A PET AS A GIFT UNLESS YOU HAVE TALKED AND AGREED WITH THE FUTURE OWNER. God. my parents always told me if I ever got a pet, I had to keep it for it's entire life (unless something happened) and I would be responsible for it.
My grandma bought me and my sister each a betta fish for a Valentine's gift one year... I must have been 8 or 9. I had a full on panic attack. "omg I don't know how to take care of it, what if I forget to feed it, this is too much responsibility!" etc etc. Can you imagine if she'd bought me a rabbit or a kitten?
ps, I named him Ish the Fish and he lived for 6 years, because I am awesome, but no one in my family has ever given a creature as a gift since then. I got a cactus once and it was dead 2 months later. That shit is way more complicated than a fish.
Miami also doesn't allow breeds like that, but our county does. It just...saddens and infuriates me that someone could look at my dog, my sweet, sweet, completely scaredy cat dog and want her dead.
Some people buried a kitten alive for fun the other day. Am I allowed to wish for their death?
I don't see why we need to wish for anyone's death? Wish the wrath of Thor would blow a tree over on their car, sure. Definitely wish that they are caught and punished to the full extent of the law, but violence will beget violence and we can't advocate animal rights if we go around threatening death at every turn. I hope the poor kitten is okay, that's pretty brutal. We found one covered in road tar last summer, and one who's leg had been removed with a knife. They're resilient little dudes though.
I used to dog sit for the world's cutest staffie. I know all about BSL breaking hearts.
That's a bullshit law. I agree some people shouldn't be allowed to have pets at all. When my mother nearly killed my dog and telling me how I should just let him die and that I could just get another, my best friend and I were telling her how we see pets as companions and not objects. Yeah...I really hate people sometimes.
I wish countries would stop making such bullshit laws and start using their resources on educating people on proper handling of pets. But I guess it's the easiest way out--you can kill a dangerous pet, but you can't kill its irresponsible owner, so it's better to just make the ~dangerous~ (...) breeds illegal to be able to justify killing animals that are dangerous only because of the stupidity of their owners. :/
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Addendum: If you're going to get upset and rant about how BSL is evil, make sure to specify you mean in regards to animals. Or the British deaf community will get terribly upset with you. ♥
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I will never understand ppl.
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ps, I named him Ish the Fish and he lived for 6 years, because I am awesome, but no one in my family has ever given a creature as a gift since then. I got a cactus once and it was dead 2 months later. That shit is way more complicated than a fish.
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Some people buried a kitten alive for fun the other day. Am I allowed to wish for their death?
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I used to dog sit for the world's cutest staffie. I know all about BSL breaking hearts.
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My best friend reaaally wants to get a pit but her condo association won't let her. :(
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I want 35465434565684542545 dogs but my cat would eat them all. She's pretty feisty. She'll move somewhere where she can have a puppy one day. :D
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