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  • Yes! People keep on thinking that they’re so smart by saying “see, idiocracy was riiiight” when the movie basically tries to say that stupidity is hereditary, and that dumb people (understand: the sub-race) need to be eradicated through eugenics.

    That is such a nazi stance, and there’s a gigantic amount of morons that don’t see it and keep on screaming “idiocracyyyyy” anytime they can.







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    15 days ago

    If the shelters have more money, they’ll have more capacity as well.

    On top of that, nothing prevents people from adopting multiple pets or of taking care of them properly.

    People manage to pop kids endlessly and find ways to take care of them all day even if they have to go to work, they definitely can manage with pets too. They just don’t give a shit.




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    That’s not what puts off people from adopting. What puts them off is that they want the perfect, convenient, good-looking, cheapest option.

    It’s like saying that people don’t adopt kids because they don’t feel perfect enough; no, they don’t do it because there’s an easier, cheaper alternative, where they don’t have to prove that they are good enough to take care of a kid beforehand. And that’s why they just keep on popping kids in an overpopulated world.

    You don’t have to be perfect, but not making a social animal spend most of the day alone is a basic requirement.

    On top of that, if you have the money to adopt and take care of a cat, but not the possibility of taking care of them properly, nothing prevents you from using this money to support a shelter or equivalent, which will in the end also take in stray cats.

    But people don’t want that because they care about themselves first, and want to get something from it first. They want a pet, and then they’ll think about their wellbeing later, if it’s not too inconvenient. And that’s the mentality that leads to stray cats, dogs, and whatnot.

    People don’t have pets to help innocent creatures. They have pets to have a nice company that depends on them and will make them feel good after a long day of work, and they don’t really care about anything else. As long as you don’t change that, that’s how you get people that get annoyed with their dogs and drop them on the side of the road, because they just don’t get as much benefit from it as before.

    Tldr: as long as you treat animals carelessly, people will be careless about them.


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    I really like people trying to be smart here by showing they don’t give a shit about their pets.

    If you can’t have more than one pet, and cannot be most of the day with him, then yeah, don’t get a pet. Just like you shouldn’t have a kid if you spend 12+ hours per day away from them. That’s basic, common sense.

    The fact that you don’t care about animal well-being, not even of your own pets that are depending fully on you, isn’t something that you should be sassy about.

    Maybe ask yourself why you felt the need to defend animal abuse, no?


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    I totally agree (especially with the impact of cats on the environment), and isn’t incompatible with what I said. I’m saying that you shouldn’t have pets if you make them wait for you all day. If you have, for example, more than one cat, they’re not just waiting for you all day because they have company and are not just starved of social interactions.

    But most people just get one pet and basically leave them with no life around for 8-10 hours per day, which is just torture. And that’s for the pets that are common enough (cats, dogs) to be treated less horribly than less popular animals, like hamsters, birds, fishes, etc.

    So sure, avoiding stray cats is good, but removing them from a hard life to put them in a brain-killing situation instead is not the solution.