This makes owning a pet sound inhumane
50If you ignore them all day, definitely. Pet ownership is a contract.
My dog gets to come along with me on most of my adventures, and I work from home. He spends the vast majority of his time with his humans doing stuff.
When I'm home and he's chilling in the backyard, he has his friends (dogs and humans) who visit him through our back alley, he has a rich social life.
I think he lives a fulfilling life.
51I feel like my two dogs have fulfilling lives as well. My husband and I work different shifts, so they're not without a human for long, and when they are they have each other. They get a lot of outings.
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There are certain pets where I imagine it is. I've been holding off getting a bird because I'm grappling with the idea that most pet-type birds are wildly social creatures, and locking them up alone for 8+ hours a day isn't fair. And having an entire flock of budgies may not be realistic
30the way a lot of people treat their pets definitely is, the only valid way to own a pet is to treat it as part of your family. The best pet owners are the ones who refer to them as their child, they unquestioningly take good care of them.
24That's definitely us with our cat, even though we are all he has in this world, I don't think he'd wish for more if he could.
Apart from us to come outside in the backyard with him. When we're outside he's happy
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It's capitalism keeping us from having home lives that is the inhumane part.
15What are the odds in the year 3000, pet ownership will be seen as a blemish on history? “In yee olden thymes, they had nazis… meat eaters… pet owners… $your_chosen_political_party-s…”
9we've had pets for at least like 10'000 years now, i don't think it's going to become unacceptable any time soon.
What i do think is likely is for there to be laws regulating pet ownership, just like how we remove children from the care of irresponsible parents. I think i recall sweden introducing some laws on needing to register the ownership of pet cats and dogs, or something along those lines.
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And they only live for so long... 😥
29Ah, you don't own a tortoise, do you?
My a dad bought mine when I was eight. It's on track to live at least as long as my grandchildren.
29The way the world is headed the turtle might outlast the great grandkids
21LoL I didn't think about that. Turtles and some birds, too I think.
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Never long enough
11My cat made it 18 years, it wasn't long enough. He was in great health until the last 6 months when everything went down hill so goddamned fast.
Of all the cats that have been in my family, he was the one that had the shortest run at it. The second shortest run was my sister's cat that made it to 22.
I miss him so much.
Some of my family members keep asking me when I'm going to replace him. And one literally asked me the week he passed away.
I don't know if I will, but if I do it's going to be a long time.
Cat Tax
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Please don't own birds
23ugh. yes. I have my father in laws cockatoo and its taught me this is just not something that should be a pet but it was almost 40 when we got him so can't exactly rewild him. We live day to day in terms of feet, they are meant to live in terms of miles.
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