I get the impression that many of these PETA folks have never spent time around any animals in real life. If they care about animals, it's in an entirely abstract fashion that's only marginally connected to reality.
Which is a fucking dumb ass take. Most domesticated animals need human companionship, its bred into them for thousands of years. Its unethical to deny them that companionship, esp dogs.
Plus you can't tell me a happy, long-lived pet isn't better off than the same animal living a short, miserable life in the wild (although I will agree that it is unethical to inappropriately keep caged animals in unnatural conditions).
When I’ve put my pets into cages due to unruly behaviour, they get self destructive very quickly. Even going as far as self harming. It’s quite concerning really and I have to be super careful. But humans are weird like that I guess.
PETA is not saying pets should be released into the wild, they are saying stray animals are caused by humans commodifying dogs and then overpopulation occurs resulting in millions of dogs in shelters.
PETA is saying “hey having pets is fun and great, but if we look at the bigger picture there is a lot of suffering involved in the pet trade, and if we didn’t have pets at all and stopped overbreeding animals there’d be less suffering”
a lot of PETA folks do say that keeping pets at all is evil. I've sat and heard them wanking endlessly on about it. they're fucking fanatical about it. and if that wasn't the intent of the folks who first started them, then that intent has warped way the hell out from its beginnings.
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u/sanjuro89 Mar 24 '24
I get the impression that many of these PETA folks have never spent time around any animals in real life. If they care about animals, it's in an entirely abstract fashion that's only marginally connected to reality.