Animal Cruelty? What!
What is up with the recent amounts of animal cruelty photos and videos? If you really are one of those animal abusers, please don't document your story. It makes you extremely stupid, and uncool.
I never understood those who took pride and joy in giving pain to an animal by either setting them on fire, or skinning them alive or just beating them. Really? How inhumane can you get? Just because they are animals, it doesn't mean they don't have feelings. How would you like it if someone else skinned you alive or burned you alive? I bet you it isn't a nice feeling. Animals feel pain too; they are just unable to communicate to us in a language we understand.
I have had gerbils and one of them was the a sickly one. She was so sick at the pet store, her eyes couldn't open, her ears had dried blood crusted around it. The pet store realized my interest in a small animal and gave her to me for free as long as I bought the other parts of a gerbil "home". They said, word per word, "She is most likely not going to last the next few days, we can't guarantee anything." Well, perhaps I like to surprise people and astonish them. I spent ridiculous amount of time to treat her; no pet store manager is going to stop me! She recovered from her infections WITHOUT a vet visit. Within 3 weeks, her eyes were big and bright, her crusting was gone and she was a happy playful gerbil. Well point of this is to say that animals are beautiful things; they company you when no one is around. They are the happiest when they are around their owners and they couldn't be happier elsewhere.
Those who take advantage of their feelings and nature angers me. I wish we could treat animals a bit more loyally; face it, after a long day of work, who's going to be the first to give you a hug right after you come through the door? Your mom or your dog?
