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I’ve played about 20 minutes of Titanfall 2 MP and I’m immediately furious this isn’t as popular as it deserves to be
Puma Rescued From A Contact-Type Zoo Can’t Be Released Into The Wild, Lives As A Spoiled House Cat
@why-animals-do-the-thing not sure if you’ve already seen this or not, but this post raises about a million red flags right?
Yes, absolutely. I’ve gotten tagged in this post a ton of times (not a bad thing!) so let’s take a look at it. This story is a prime example of how clickbait news sites perpetuate really dangerous interactions with animals as cute.
I’m just gonna burst the bubble on this: Messi is not a rescue. Messi is an exotic pet - and one being managed in a very dangerous, irresponsible way. Period, full stop.
Messi was one of three cougar cubs born at the Saransk city zoo in Russia, and involved in some sort of soccer fandom event. When it was over, all three cubs were given to the local “contact” zoo, wherever they were in Russia (I still haven’t been able to track down that facility’s name). The owners went to the zoo, saw the cub, and in their own words “decided they had to have him.” After thinking about it for a few days, they went back to the zoo and convinced them to let them purchase the cub. For whatever reason - whether Messi was sickly and they didn’t want to deal with it, as they say, or simply because it was profitable - the zoo sold them this cougar. Exotic pets are common in Russia, and they have to come from somewhere, so I’m really not surprised that a zoo would be willing to sell one of their animals if someone was really willing to pay. That is not rescue. No matter how they or the media try to frame it, these people literally went “I want one” because cougar cubs are cute, and then followed through on it by buying him.
There’s a whole bunch more in the IG thread they’ve posted about his history, but I’m not going to bother embedding the screenshots. Basically, it says: he was super sick and needed a lot of medical attention, they made their house nice for him, and then they started taking him to group dog training classes, and he can’t be released because of his health issues. Let’s break that down.
Yes, it’s imaginable he was really sick when they got him. The images I’ve seen of the cubs when they were first brought in for the promotion show very, very young animals that are no longer with their mother. According to the posts by the owner, Messi has had issues with underdeveloped cartilage, bone density, and other indicatiors of malnutrition; you can see in photos how messed up Messi’s conformation is even now. I genuinely don’t know if the zoo would have kept him alive with those health issues or if they intended to euthanize him, but it’s really important here to note that the zoo was not looking to rehome Messi to someone who would care for him - he was simply lucky that this couple decided they wanted a pet and offered to buy him.
The way he’s being managed is utterly irresponsible and is setting them up for a tragedy. Yes, they built a lovely indoor setup for him that most domestic housecats would love - but Messi is still a wild animal with wild instincts, and allowing him to free-roam in a house with people and interact (even on a leash!) with small animals is dangerous. Remember that spreadsheet of all the maulings and deaths caused by pet big cats in the US I’ve got? Cougars are the second-most common species for involvement in incidents. He may be small for a cougar, but he still has claws and teeth and predatory instincts that no amount of “love” can erase. At some point they will kick in, and either a person or another animal will get hurt.
Yeah, that screenshot looks like a totally positive interaction between Messi and the housecat. Notice there’s small dog that’s running around unrestrained at the bottom right during the interaction.
My biggest issue with this whole thing is the way they take him out in public. If they want to endanger themselves and their pets, that’s one thing. But what they choose to do with this cat in public is dangerous and irresponsible. It angers me no end that it’s being lauded as super-cute by so many American media outlets when - if you did anything similar with any big cat in the United States - it would either be illegal or you’d be facing some serious problems with regards to public endangerment. I guess it’s cute when it’s in another country that we don’t feel the need to hold responsible for their animal management practices, right?
One, they take this cat out in public all the time. They don’t secure it when driving (good luck not getting mauled if you’re in an accident and the cat is in pain / escapes), they walk it into pet stores like it’s a domestic animal (and just have to hope it doesn’t go after any of the other pets?), and they take him to fucking group dog training classes. In the extended history that I didn’t bother to screenshot all of, they tell basically this story: they couldn’t find anyone who had ever worked with cougar, so they went to this one guy who had worked with a bobcat once, and then they started taking him to group dog training classes after a while. I’m sorry, but are they actively trying to get other people’s pets killed?? Predatory drift is real, and being in a small enclosed space with a lot of other small animals whose behavior is unpredictable is a great way to set that cat up for failure. Everything they’re doing with that cat is just so stupid and irresponsible I can’t even with it.
Lastly, the claim he can’t go “back to the wild” because of his size is bullshit. That cat can’t be released into the wild because a) cougar are not native to Russia and b) he’s been hand-raised, used for promotional material, tamed, and kept as a housecat. It’s not probable that he even knows how to hunt, and if he was somehow released into the US, he’d turn into a nuisance animal - one that seeks out humans for resources and/or companionship - almost immediately.
The way Messi is being kept goes against every scientifically-backed standard for responsible big cat management. (I can tell you with pretty decent surety that even the people I know who have circus or private non-professional big cat ownership backgrounds would think it’s inappropriate and dangerous. I know it goes against the standards and best practices of even those professional institutions that do allow things like free contact work with big cats). Just because it looks cute does not mean it is safe or an appropriate way to interact with an exotic animal. I’m not kidding that, if you tried even a fraction of what they do with Messi in the US - even just admitting that you have a pet cougar you’re free contact with in a state where that’s legal - the harassment, protesting, and potential lawsuits wouldn’t end until that cat was removed. However, slap a “rescue” label on the situation, put a bunch of cute photos online, and suddenly the internet decides that all welfare and safety concerns somehow no longer apply. So much so that his story is being shared by sites like OneGreenPlanet, which are rabidly against animals being cared for professionally in zoos but apparently fine with people having exotic pets. After all, Messi is now famous on IG and Youtube, and I’m sure his owners are cashing in on his popularity: until someone gets injured or killed because of his owner’s management practices, the groups writing feature articles about Messi don’t have to think critically about what they’re promoting because the word “rescue” is involved. I just feel really bad for the people who will, inevitably, try to emulate Messi’s owners and set themselves up for a tragedy.
There’s always something fucked behind these so called uplifting posts…
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poor people exist y’all…
so a friend of mine saw this post and wanted to share his thoughts on it but was uncomfortable doing so publicly, so he asked me to just paste a message he sent me. he wanted me to note that English is his first language.
“I understand that the intention of this joke is harmless. It is making fun of men who put little effort into their lives even though they can do better. That is worthy of mockery.
But when I saw this post that was not what I could focus on. See my apartment is almost identical to the one in the picture above.
I am 29 years old and a college grad. All that means is I have a ton of debt and a degree that is useless because my field only wants people with MAs now. I am also disabled.
I work two jobs that pay minimum wage. What I I make is about enough to cover rent, utilities, gas, groceries, loan repayments, and medical expenses. At the end of some months I have about $5 left in my account. Sometimes I have to get by with the help of my friends.
In my apartment I have a bedframe and mattress, two chairs, a chest of drawers, a TV stand and a TV with an Xbox. There is one poster on my wall of Captain America. Almost all of these things are from college almost a decade ago.
My parents do not help me. They stopped speaking to me six years ago after I was outed to them. I lived in my car and on friends’ couches for a while.
I’m much better off now and very thankful to have shelter, medical care and food but I still have a lot of shame. I hate how naked my apartment is. I hate that I can’t buy both food and decorations. I don’t have people over much.
In the comments on this post are some things like people saying even poor people do not have an excuse, that everyone can get furniture if they just go on craig’s list. I have one day off a week and am usually so tired all I do is sleep.
Even if someone was giving away a free sofa and I had time to meet them, I do not have a car big enough to fit it in, would not be able to move it into my apartment because of my disabilty and do not have friends who can lift heavy things. I would get there and not be able to do much but stare at it.
This is getting long and I’m sorry. I know this was not meant to hurt people like me but this post, along with many of the comments, reminded me of the fact that sometimes I look around my apartment and feel very afraid that this is the best things will ever get even though I work hard and pray for change.
It hurts because I don’t think it’s fair to say there is a problem with a home like this but at the same time I feel like there IS a problem because posts like this tell me there is. My shame is like a circle in this way.
I am glad that there are people who even though they are poor can get furniture and decorations for their home but I am not one of them and it is not my fault.
We should laugh at men who can do better but don’t. But we should also remember that doing better looks very different for everyone. I think that jokes like these must be told carefully or else they cast a large net that can catch a lot of marginalized people on the way.”
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Person: Canada is such a perfect country weed is legal, gay marriage is legal like is there anything wrong with that country
Me an indigenous person: haha ha ha
So, can I do anything about my blog being marked as “sensitive,” or is this just my life now?
Seriously asking. I don’t know where to/how to see the posts in question or anything.
Move to a different medium, as rediculous as that is. Newgrounds isn't bad. I'd recommend Pillowfort if it wasn't in beta and required donation for a beta account.
Kestrel taking a dust bath
It’s not just little birds like that like dust baths - even majestic birds like raptors enjoy getting down and dirty too! Dust baths help birds stay clean, since the dust can penetrate the feathers and get through to the skin to slough off debris, and some studies suggest that it also may be used by the bird to regulate the amount of body oil that accumulates on their feathers.