Animal activists, What do you think about them? |
May 23 2010, 03:31 AM
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Well today I came across an animal activist on the Internet...I had taken a picture of a snake I found in my backyard. It had a bloody little scratch in its skin because my cat found it before I did. Of course I made sure that snake got away and I kept my cat inside the rest of the day. And yet this animal activist literally started to blame me of animal abuse.
How horrible person I am to let my cats outside and cats are monsters that should be killed. My cats mainly only kill and eat mice and that's one of the reasons why I have cats in the first place. I don't want my house full of mice. When cat catches a bird for example it's probably old and sick already. As for snakes, I've never seen one near my house before. And frankly I haven't seen too many grass snakes in Finland at all. Anyway I did save that poor snake. I absolutely love animals and I don't want to see them killed or hurt. How can one be an animal activist when they want pets dead... I'd want to hear your opinion on this. If you have similar experiences or something else to say about this, please do. This post has been edited by kaitenmia: May 26 2010, 12:51 PM |
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Jun 2 2010, 06:14 PM
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I volunteered at my city's zoo one summer. I'm not saying this to give myself legitimacy as an animal activist or whatever, but rather to give credibility to the story I'm about to tell.
We had an elderly elephant (who's passed away since then, sadly) named Mona. She'd lived at the zoo most of her adult life, along with another elephant, who at the time of these events had recently died. So Mona was old, recently bereft of her best friend, and used to life at the zoo. Which was ... a zoo, and looked like one, but she had space, and keepers who loved her, and so on and so forth. But then PETA decided that it was cruel and horrible to keep her in an enclosure, and that she should be taken to an elephant sanctuary to live out the rest of her days in freedom. Which sounds noble enough on the surface, except ... she was old, and in mourning, and she might not have survived a trip like that. And even if she had, and if she could adjust to a different location and lifestyle, she was on her last set of teeth. At the zoo, we could make special food for her that wouldn't wear her teeth down, but in a sanctuary she would have to find her own food, and she'd wear down her teeth. It was just not practical at all. If she'd been a lot younger, a little elephant child or something, I would have been a lot more open to the idea. Zoos are sad places and I couldn't stand being there every day for more than a few months. But ~*~releasing the animal into the wiiild~*~ is far from a universal solution. ... Anyway, that's mostly why I don't like PETA. They're silly. That said, I do believe in animal rights. I just think a lot of "activists" are either rabble-rousers or uninformed bleeding hearts. -------------------- |
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kaitenmia Animal activists May 23 2010, 03:31 AM
Reyo My take on it is that the people who really do giv... May 24 2010, 01:03 AM
Damnatio Memoriae I absolutely love animal activists. They're so... May 24 2010, 02:29 AM
CM Punk I absolutely hate it whenever people wish a certai... May 25 2010, 02:40 PM
Reyo QUOTE(CM Punk @ May 25 2010, 03:40 PM) I ... May 25 2010, 03:41 PM
Nectaris QUOTE(CM Punk @ May 25 2010, 01:40 PM) I ... Jan 26 2011, 01:34 PM
Dubstep Such animal activists have such skewered perspecti... May 25 2010, 08:25 PM
Annakyoyama358 QUOTE(Dubstep @ May 25 2010, 09:25 PM) Su... Jun 3 2010, 07:00 PM
Mr Blue Viperfish It all depends on the individual activist. People... May 26 2010, 05:49 PM
Eris Shade As usual, I'm on the side of situations. Yours... May 26 2010, 08:28 PM
kaitenmia Yeah I think that worrying(or rather freaking out)... May 28 2010, 11:19 AM
Orochimaru To be honest, I don’t really like cats being outdo... May 30 2010, 01:36 PM
shou75 since this animal activists thing is pretty much t... Jun 4 2010, 06:38 PM
GanBare I am neurtal! Jun 8 2010, 06:24 PM
rileyup i dont beleive in circuses or phyiscal abuse but p... Jan 13 2011, 03:55 PM
ChocolateVanilla @kaitenmia: I think that specific 'animal act... Jan 14 2011, 08:12 PM
PikaDiety Animal activists like that drive me crazy. I hate ... Jan 15 2011, 11:54 AM
Rugal I'm all for treating animals fairly and all, b... Jan 15 2011, 02:00 PM
Painted Fox I count myself as a non-extremist animal rights ac... Jan 28 2011, 02:20 AM
bijoukaiba I love animals, but meat is still probably my favo... Jan 28 2011, 01:00 PM
Blak99Psy I was just thinking about the sea kitten thing. Ri... Jan 28 2011, 01:19 PM
rileyup look what PETA made giblets anyone? <object wi... Jan 29 2011, 07:54 PM
rileyup giblets anyone http://features.peta.org/CookingMa... Jan 29 2011, 07:55 PM
Breeder Drew I'm against some, some ar okay. It all depends... Feb 9 2011, 11:41 AM
Chu Chu QUOTE(Breeder Drew @ Feb 9 2011, 08:41 AM... Feb 10 2011, 08:08 PM
Cloud Nine I'm completely against the abuse of animals. I... Dec 5 2011, 11:51 AM
Dubbleyew Personally, I really hate the likes of PETA for ma... Apr 11 2012, 08:10 PM
zerohundred QUOTE(kaitenmia @ May 23 2010, 01:31 AM) ... May 26 2012, 12:01 PM
Zexis Animal activists are basically people who claim to... Jul 8 2012, 05:33 PM
Aves Dominari QUOTE(Zexis @ Jul 8 2012, 06:33 PM) Anima... Sep 30 2012, 09:02 PM
The Winnebago Folks that are idiots and don't know what they... Sep 30 2012, 09:17 PM
Aves Dominari QUOTE(The Winnebago @ Sep 30 2012, 10:17 ... Sep 30 2012, 10:54 PM
The Winnebago QUOTE(Aves Dominari @ Sep 30 2012, 11:54 ... Oct 1 2012, 12:05 AM
Aves Dominari QUOTE(The Winnebago @ Oct 1 2012, 01:05 A... Oct 1 2012, 02:05 AM
The Winnebago QUOTE(Aves Dominari @ Oct 1 2012, 03:05 A... Oct 2 2012, 01:54 AM
Celeste2002 I'm also an animal activist, but I don't b... Sep 20 2013, 02:28 AM
Reyo My take on it is that the people who really do giv... May 24 2010, 01:03 AM
Damnatio Memoriae I absolutely love animal activists. They're so... May 24 2010, 02:29 AM
CM Punk I absolutely hate it whenever people wish a certai... May 25 2010, 02:40 PM
Reyo QUOTE(CM Punk @ May 25 2010, 03:40 PM) I ... May 25 2010, 03:41 PM
Nectaris QUOTE(CM Punk @ May 25 2010, 01:40 PM) I ... Jan 26 2011, 01:34 PM
Dubstep Such animal activists have such skewered perspecti... May 25 2010, 08:25 PM
Annakyoyama358 QUOTE(Dubstep @ May 25 2010, 09:25 PM) Su... Jun 3 2010, 07:00 PM
Mr Blue Viperfish It all depends on the individual activist. People... May 26 2010, 05:49 PM
Eris Shade As usual, I'm on the side of situations. Yours... May 26 2010, 08:28 PM
kaitenmia Yeah I think that worrying(or rather freaking out)... May 28 2010, 11:19 AM
Orochimaru To be honest, I don’t really like cats being outdo... May 30 2010, 01:36 PM
shou75 since this animal activists thing is pretty much t... Jun 4 2010, 06:38 PM
GanBare I am neurtal! Jun 8 2010, 06:24 PM
rileyup i dont beleive in circuses or phyiscal abuse but p... Jan 13 2011, 03:55 PM
ChocolateVanilla @kaitenmia: I think that specific 'animal act... Jan 14 2011, 08:12 PM
PikaDiety Animal activists like that drive me crazy. I hate ... Jan 15 2011, 11:54 AM
Rugal I'm all for treating animals fairly and all, b... Jan 15 2011, 02:00 PM
Painted Fox I count myself as a non-extremist animal rights ac... Jan 28 2011, 02:20 AM
bijoukaiba I love animals, but meat is still probably my favo... Jan 28 2011, 01:00 PM
Blak99Psy I was just thinking about the sea kitten thing. Ri... Jan 28 2011, 01:19 PM
rileyup look what PETA made giblets anyone? <object wi... Jan 29 2011, 07:54 PM
rileyup giblets anyone http://features.peta.org/CookingMa... Jan 29 2011, 07:55 PM
Breeder Drew I'm against some, some ar okay. It all depends... Feb 9 2011, 11:41 AM
Chu Chu QUOTE(Breeder Drew @ Feb 9 2011, 08:41 AM... Feb 10 2011, 08:08 PM
Cloud Nine I'm completely against the abuse of animals. I... Dec 5 2011, 11:51 AM
Dubbleyew Personally, I really hate the likes of PETA for ma... Apr 11 2012, 08:10 PM
zerohundred QUOTE(kaitenmia @ May 23 2010, 01:31 AM) ... May 26 2012, 12:01 PM
Zexis Animal activists are basically people who claim to... Jul 8 2012, 05:33 PM
Aves Dominari QUOTE(Zexis @ Jul 8 2012, 06:33 PM) Anima... Sep 30 2012, 09:02 PM
The Winnebago Folks that are idiots and don't know what they... Sep 30 2012, 09:17 PM
Aves Dominari QUOTE(The Winnebago @ Sep 30 2012, 10:17 ... Sep 30 2012, 10:54 PM
The Winnebago QUOTE(Aves Dominari @ Sep 30 2012, 11:54 ... Oct 1 2012, 12:05 AM
Aves Dominari QUOTE(The Winnebago @ Oct 1 2012, 01:05 A... Oct 1 2012, 02:05 AM
The Winnebago QUOTE(Aves Dominari @ Oct 1 2012, 03:05 A... Oct 2 2012, 01:54 AM
Celeste2002 I'm also an animal activist, but I don't b... Sep 20 2013, 02:28 AM
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