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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I know you meant this as a funny reply, and I’m sure your cat is very well taken care of.

…but I want to point out that the argument against pet ownership is more about the millions of animals in puppy mills, or on the streets, or abused by breeders, or bred with genetic issues for the sake of purity of breed. Your cat was extremely lucky to be adopted by you. But so many other cats are not. So many other cats die in shelters, or on the streets, or from euthanization, or in breeding mills. We create and fund the system that brings the unlucky cats into existence, for our own benefit.

The argument is that all those millions of cats and dogs that suffer and die so we can choose a few of them to pamper as pets, is not worth it.

Your cat isn’t an abuse victim. But all the other cats who weren’t so lucky, are.

Plus animal abuse is incredibly hard to discover: because animals cannot go to the police and report their owners. Lol. They don’t have voices. That makes them incredibly easy victims to exploit. Humans as a whole are really a hard group of people to trust with such vulnerable creatures, ngl.

I’m very fun at parties, I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Re. Your Username: Replicant Batty.

So you're an artificial recreation of Batty Coda? Did you get Robin's personality in there too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It's a reference to Roy Batty from Blade Runner. I didn't know the name Batty Koda so I looked it up and I had completely forgotten about that movie lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

the photos I take of my cat don't help the case