On the 25th of December many families will welcome a new life into their homes.
The kids will be thrilled and excited, and the family will take pictures and be overjoyed at the delight the new addition has brought to their happy home.
However, for many, this new addition will soon be seen as the root of all things evil, something to be disposed of, and something to be thrown outside like the rest of the garbage and forgotten, or it will be abused and broken like so many other Christmas gifts.
The problem is this new addition is not an inanimate object; it is a living sentient being. This Christmas gift feels pain, feels hunger, feels abandonment, and fear. It bleeds, it cries, it needs to eat and drink to sustain life. Yet in today’s society it is abused and forgotten, starved, chained and left to die.
Of course I am talking of the Christmas Pup or Kitten you got for the kids. The one you just had to have for Christmas morning. The one you paid top dollar for, to some lowlife BYB or Miller.
I beg anyone who reads this with every ounce of my being DO NOT BUY AN ANIMAL AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT, and DO NOT BUY FROM MILLERS AND BYB’S. If you actually wait till about the 2nd week of January you will be able to visit your local pound and get the animal you want so much without a problem. You will find everything from the so-called hybrid puggle to the $1000 poodle, to the Turkish Van cat.
People will dump them around about that time, they are old Christmas gifts that are either abused or broken, or people no longer have the time for, or the kids got bored with them. If you really want an animal in your life, save these lives, don’t feed the puppy millers and the byb’s. Also if you really want animal understand it is a long term commitment, not something that can be just given away when you get bored, or they get old or sick.
It is illegal to abuse, neglect or abandon and animal.
Also, if someone asks you what you want for Christmas, and you have no idea what to answer, say “CASH” then donate it to you local small rescue. (Just a thought.) ↓
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| Name: T-rabbit | Date: Dec 2nd, 2007 3:19 AM |
| Name: 10calama | Date: Dec 2nd, 2007 5:24 PM |
| what if the family wanted a dog and christmas was a fun time to do it, what is wrong with that. ↑ |
| Name: lindalu | Date: Dec 2nd, 2007 9:43 PM |
| This is also seen at easter time. Baby bunnies and chicks are sold by the thousands come mid summer the shelters are full, with not nearly enough adoptions to house them. ↑ |
| Name: 10calama | Date: Dec 3rd, 2007 12:10 AM |
| Again, what if the family truly wants one and a holiday is a good time to get one? ↑ |
| Name: T-rabbit | Date: Dec 3rd, 2007 1:07 AM |
| lindalu I know it is a sad thing to see when your in the shelter all year and see the rise in the pond population every year at the same time. but that is human compassion at its finest. ↑ |
| Name: T-rabbit | Date: Dec 3rd, 2007 1:08 AM |
| Name: T-rabbit | Date: Dec 4th, 2007 1:14 AM |
| Name: lindalu | Date: Dec 4th, 2007 10:13 PM |
| 10calama there is nothing wrong with some one wanting a family companion, but they should plan before they get it. During the holidays people get hasty and with out thinking they go and purchase an animal, later realizing that they in fact don't want it. All this post is suggesting is that one think and plan prior to purchasing or adopting an animal. ↑ |
| Name: 10calama | Date: Dec 6th, 2007 3:24 AM |
| I used to sell rabbits at the fair, where my entire profit was based on people buying on a whim,so perhaps my view is biased, However I beleive that after the transaction, whatever the new owner does with the animal is their business. If they decide to bring it to the shelter, than they wasted their money so they learn a lesson, and the one who sold the animal has his cash so he is happy. It was like the guy who asked me if I was opposed to him eating the rabbit, I said " I'd prefer you not to, however after the transaction it is your business." If they flatly stop feeding or watering the animal, that is another story, but anything else, in my opinion, is up to the owner. ↑ |
| Name: T-rabbit | Date: Dec 6th, 2007 7:48 PM |
LOL your just a ignorant human being and it's a disgrace to have to call you that.
Rabbits are a different subject to me ,but if i sell you a puppy and you start fighting them later. I am just as guilty as you for selling it to you. This goes back to the proper breeding ethics. Money for profit is not a reason for breeding. ( I am referring to dogs as I am a dog person.) ↑ |
| Name: lindalu | Date: Dec 11th, 2007 2:25 AM |
| I'm a all animal person, I feel that no animal should be breed for profit. Dog, Cat, Rabbit, Cow, Chicken and so on. However, I will stick to the topic being that is about dogs and puppies. ↑ |
| Name: 10calama | Date: Dec 12th, 2007 2:11 AM |
| All creatures are breed for profit, even humans. On many farms ( more in the past, but still now) people have lots of kids for the free labor a child provides. ↑ |
| Name: lindalu | Date: Dec 16th, 2007 11:03 PM |
| Name: 10calama | Date: Dec 26th, 2007 7:37 PM |
| Name: briseis | Date: Dec 29th, 2007 12:30 AM |
| 10calama, I don't think Lindalu was contesting the fact that animals are bred for profit, rather opposing it ... ↑ |
| Name: 10calama | Date: Dec 29th, 2007 5:59 PM |
| I know, my point was that many people are alive today because they were "bred for a profit." The same is true for all animals, even if you breed them for a profit, they still bring happiness to people, and live out their lives in the same way. ↑ |
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