Comments on: Pets aren’t people… are they? http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/pets-arent-people-are-they/ Random musings from the radical feminist Christian antiracist left - some having to do with Ubuntu Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:52:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: frak http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/pets-arent-people-are-they/comment-page-1/#comment-1553 frak Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:37:36 +0000 http://ubuntucat.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/pets-arent-people-are-they/#comment-1553 I seriously think it relates to our barbaric minds, which to stay alive can in some cases force us to create a relationship with mother nature around us. Which in turn causes us to domesticate and befriend us. Its all human nature, perfectly normal for a person to have emotions for an animal. I seriously think it relates to our barbaric minds, which to stay alive can in some cases force us to create a relationship with mother nature around us. Which in turn causes us to domesticate and befriend us.

Its all human nature, perfectly normal for a person to have emotions for an animal.

]]> By: D. Peace http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/pets-arent-people-are-they/comment-page-1/#comment-1552 D. Peace Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:51:37 +0000 http://ubuntucat.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/pets-arent-people-are-they/#comment-1552 Animals aren't people, but they are living, breathing, intelligent, sentient creatures capable of emotion, complexity, and many of the things you feel yourself. Spaying and neutering are done for the good of the animal (a quick surgery will save them years of painful childbirth and the frustrations of mating, as well as sparing the unborn puppies and kittens the misery of going homeless or dying), and euthanasia is necessary in some cases. As for declawing, that's a completely different ball game. I would never declaw my cat because he stands to gain nothing and it's quite painful even after the surgery. Of course people are held to a different standard than animals. For example, we aren't going to spay and neuter our kids. But that goes without saying. I don't think that because animals are different than people diminishes their ability to befriend us, or our responsibility to them as compassionate and decent human beings. Give your cat a hug for me. Take good care of him and enjoy your time together. Animals aren’t people, but they are living, breathing, intelligent, sentient creatures capable of emotion, complexity, and many of the things you feel yourself.

Spaying and neutering are done for the good of the animal (a quick surgery will save them years of painful childbirth and the frustrations of mating, as well as sparing the unborn puppies and kittens the misery of going homeless or dying), and euthanasia is necessary in some cases. As for declawing, that’s a completely different ball game. I would never declaw my cat because he stands to gain nothing and it’s quite painful even after the surgery.

Of course people are held to a different standard than animals. For example, we aren’t going to spay and neuter our kids. But that goes without saying. I don’t think that because animals are different than people diminishes their ability to befriend us, or our responsibility to them as compassionate and decent human beings.

Give your cat a hug for me. Take good care of him and enjoy your time together.

]]> By: st33med http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/pets-arent-people-are-they/comment-page-1/#comment-1551 st33med Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:43:02 +0000 http://ubuntucat.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/pets-arent-people-are-they/#comment-1551 Well, yeah. My cat is about 2 years old, and she can be pretty annoying when she wants affection. She just gets in the way of my desktop, leaves hairs all over my laptop keyboard, and meows until you pet her. I do like her, but she likes us just a little to much. Well, yeah. My cat is about 2 years old, and she can be pretty annoying when she wants affection. She just gets in the way of my desktop, leaves hairs all over my laptop keyboard, and meows until you pet her. I do like her, but she likes us just a little to much.

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