Cats or dogs? Katzen oder Hunde? Gatos o perros? Or something else entirely? Are you sure you’re even a person?
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I’ve always been a cat lover. Whether or not I’m a person is still up for debate.
Both of them are great! ¡Ambos es lindos!
I like both, but I wouldn’t own a dog. It’s just way to high maintenance and complicates going on vacation too much. Our cat has a feeder in the shed, and he can stay at home alone while we’re on vacation with no problem.
Cats are brilliant. But I like dogs.
Both. I have both
I think all animals and many fungi are cute little fuckers that I’d protect if I can.
Why not both? ;)
Dog. Lifts up my day after I get home.
Cats 😾 although I feel it is unethical to own pets, personally
I’d say it’s unethical to breed them, but not to adopt them if that’s in their best interest.
Yeah, breading is really messed up. If the cats have access to outside, i’d say it’s ethical to adopt.
I think this is more of a problem with capitalism, than a problem with breeding being fundamentally wrong, we’re incentivized to breed as poorly as possible, it’s a race to the bottom.
That being said, I think some animals are bred pretty carefully, definitely not dogs and cats, but certain insect breeding operations are pretty ethical just because being ethical with them is insanely easy.
All pets?
I think owning a tarantula, for example, is perfectly ethical, because of the way tarantus live.
They should all be free to roam. BTW I’m not saying to make it illegal, just how I live.
Certain animals don’t really roam as part of their lifestyle, most tarantulas are ambush predators, if you put a tarantula into a hole and regularly give it food, it doesn’t dream of the outside world where it can roam freely, roaming freely is its worst nightmare because that’s how it gets exposed to predators… tarantulas find a hole where they constantly get food and you can presume based on how they live in the wild that they’ve found the best hole ever.
They also show clear signs of stress when they are stressed, and they show less of those in captivity than in the wild.
That’s my argument for tarantulas anyway.
I am on team Total Animal Liberation (but also have a dog)
Me too, although I think adoption can be okay
Yep, gotta clean up the mess we left as humanity. We can not abandon them while they need us. Yet breeders should be absolutely illegal.
Yet breeders should be absolutely illegal.
I agree. Even individual pet owners (or guardians) breeding with their pet is problematic imo. Certainly when they choose the breeding partners.
But even if the dogs are free to choose themselves you could argue that you shouldn’t let them breed because it would be better to adopt animals in need rather than create new animals.
it would be better to adopt animals in need rather than create new animals.
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The other day I had a conversation with someone who also rejects breeding but said that (female) dogs should give birth at least once in their life (because they read, it would lower uterus cancer risk). Almost as if people (even after a pandemic) still did not understand exponential growth.
