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[Mangoheart]

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

[Aves Dominari]

Folks that are idiots and don't know what they're even saying (like the one in OP's post) aggravate me to no end.

Personally, I do not hold any species of life form higher than another and humans are just another animal, and killing other animals is okay in the situation that A: You're being attacked by it, or B: You're killing it for food.

Were it so easy.
Take, for example, drug testing. How do we make sure new drugs work? Human subjects aren't common enough to be used as test subjects, and there's a whole ethical can of worms besides. It's not pleasant, but animal testing is the only way we can get new drugs. None of the alternative methods we can think of are developed enough to be useful, so for now the only thing that we can use as a testing ground for potentially life-saving drugs is animals. Should we stop killing animals in drug tests and let humans die of diseases we could cure?
And what if you've got a choice between saving the life of a dog or a human? Do you flip a coin, because the two lives are equal? What about between a human and his goldfish? And gods forbid we keep using cars; the lives of all of those animals killed by cars aren't worth the convenience.

[The Winnebago]

Folks that are idiots and don't know what they're even saying (like the one in OP's post) aggravate me to no end.

Personally, I do not hold any species of life form higher than another and humans are just another animal, and killing other animals is okay in the situation that A: You're being attacked by it, or B: You're killing it for food.

Were it so easy.
Take, for example, drug testing. How do we make sure new drugs work? Human subjects aren't common enough to be used as test subjects, and there's a whole ethical can of worms besides. It's not pleasant, but animal testing is the only way we can get new drugs. None of the alternative methods we can think of are developed enough to be useful, so for now the only thing that we can use as a testing ground for potentially life-saving drugs is animals. Should we stop killing animals in drug tests and let humans die of diseases we could cure?
And what if you've got a choice between saving the life of a dog or a human? Do you flip a coin, because the two lives are equal? What about between a human and his goldfish? And gods forbid we keep using cars; the lives of all of those animals killed by cars aren't worth the convenience.

Developing new cures to diseases and other various drugs only stimulates the overbearing human population, and drains the Earth's resources more quickly, which puts the entire planet under greater stress than if our population was stabilised, which is highly selfish and destructive to the rest of the fauna and flora that are stuck on Earth.

Depends on how much the dog and human mean to me. If they were both just strangers, then I dunno which I'd pick, if any. That's a very situational question. I could just wanna let them both get put out of their misery if they're dying painfully and will be irreversibly damaged to the point of permanent incapacitation.

Accidental death occurs all the time, be it someone hitting a human with a car or hitting a deer with a car.

This post has been edited by The Winnebago: Oct 1 2012, 12:19 AM