Having two dogs and a cat later in life helped me discover my deep love for animals. Then I watched Earthlings on UA-cam, and everything changed. I made the connection. I realized that all animals-whether pets, farmed, or wild-deserve compassion and respect. That documentary opened my eyes to the truth about how animals are treated, and my husband and I became vegetarian, then vegan. Earthlings isn't easy to watch, but it is necessary. If you love animals, I urge you to see it for yourself and make the connection too.
I'm with Ricky. I've always had dogs and had to have 3 of them euthenised due to illness. Put I could not put them somewhere and had urns for them and kept them. That probably sounds terrible to some but I just felt they were still with me.
@@seldom_bucket Quite likely, yes - not that happiness has got anything to do with it. Do you think that fish and spiders have a sensation of happiness? 🤔
If they' were not locked in a cage they could get killed by a host of carnivorous predators or die of the cold or a bit of both if they're that unlucky, so wouldn't you rather see them alive than end up in some animals stomach, honestly it's like saying it's cruel keeping cats and dogs in a house against their will, even though they have been domesticated over thousands of years, and love and rely on humans to survive and live a happy life, hopefully, and yes there are evil people who should be locked up for life for animal abuse and cruelty but do you really think domesticated animals would ever be able to be happy being alone and scared, trying to avoid getting killed by people or run over by cars or predated on, not being sarcastic cause Incan see your point of view to a certain extent and it would make for a great fictional live animation escaping the cage movie with other animals as well but in the real world it would be a catastrophe for the poor animal and even if the animal survived a close shave with death it would definitely have an animal version of PTSD afterwards
@iankilburn6245 they also put a hamster wheel in the wild and found that wild animals enjoy it exactly the same as domestic animals. They literally have anh stress taken away and give an endless source of happiness
Having two dogs and a cat later in life helped me discover my deep love for animals. Then I watched Earthlings on UA-cam, and everything changed. I made the connection. I realized that all animals-whether pets, farmed, or wild-deserve compassion and respect. That documentary opened my eyes to the truth about how animals are treated, and my husband and I became vegetarian, then vegan. Earthlings isn't easy to watch, but it is necessary. If you love animals, I urge you to see it for yourself and make the connection too.
I'm with Ricky. I've always had dogs and had to have 3 of them euthenised due to illness. Put I could not put them somewhere and had urns for them and kept them. That probably sounds terrible to some but I just felt they were still with me.
24:40 he looks great here
If you really love animals you don't lock hamsters in a cage.
😅 yeah because it'd be much happier in the wild?
@@seldom_bucket Quite likely, yes - not that happiness has got anything to do with it. Do you think that fish and spiders have a sensation of happiness? 🤔
@@jimnewcombe7584 woosh.
If they' were not locked in a cage they could get killed by a host of carnivorous predators or die of the cold or a bit of both if they're that unlucky, so wouldn't you rather see them alive than end up in some animals stomach, honestly it's like saying it's cruel keeping cats and dogs in a house against their will, even though they have been domesticated over thousands of years, and love and rely on humans to survive and live a happy life, hopefully, and yes there are evil people who should be locked up for life for animal abuse and cruelty but do you really think domesticated animals would ever be able to be happy being alone and scared, trying to avoid getting killed by people or run over by cars or predated on, not being sarcastic cause Incan see your point of view to a certain extent and it would make for a great fictional live animation escaping the cage movie with other animals as well but in the real world it would be a catastrophe for the poor animal and even if the animal survived a close shave with death it would definitely have an animal version of PTSD afterwards
@iankilburn6245 they also put a hamster wheel in the wild and found that wild animals enjoy it exactly the same as domestic animals.
They literally have anh stress taken away and give an endless source of happiness