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The World Ends Every Single Day, Try A Kitten, Instead.
We would all do better to note suffering is not fun
Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers
It’s the end of the world at the ‘shelter’
Cats, dogs, and other pets taken into animal shelters, typically have up to one week to live. The majority of them have no health problems. They are killed at rates of approximately 1,000 per day, across the USA.
For those that are relatively “healthy” the suffering, they feel is despair, fear, and jail cells. Then the needle. And hopefully, a last human caress.
This does not count those euthanized by vets, or by gunshot at home like our sick horses when I was a child. Or that motor mangled cat in Texas, or our neighbor’s dog. Or, many millions per year. Nor does it count the much higher numbers that are eaten, hit by a car, fall in the river, tumble out windows, or some other mysterious fate.
But the fate of our pets’ suffering is not nearly as common as the fate of our factory farm animals, or, our wildlife now in drought, fire, or flood.
Rainbow fright
The point is, quit complaining about the end of the world. When a life ends, that pet, person, or pear…