Disingenuous.
PETA believes owning pets causes "immeasurable suffering," and doesn't really want people to have them at all.
PETA believes owning pets causes “immeasurable suffering,” and doesn’t really want people to have them at all. ==
OK
What about all the non-pet animals?
Flies, rats, aphids, spiders, germs, democrats, snakes, cockroaches, etc.
Even if they are not ‘pets’, are we supposed to feed and house them? Even if they want to invade and take over our lives?
Sorry. Doesn’t pass the sanity test.
I wonder if this representative of PETA is pro-choice.
The only immeasurable suffering I have ever experienced as a result of owning a pet, dogs in my case, is when one of them passes.
My last one, a German Shorthair Pointer was bought from a breeder who raised the pups in cages. He would place the remains of dead pheasants on top of them after a hunt so the dogs would learn the scent. He was breeding them for himself but decided to part with my boy because he thought he wouldn’t hunt well. Turned out he was right. The dog was not a hunter but maybe the most loyal, warm, right headed creature I have ever met. He passed last year at 16 and I miss him and think about him every day.
I am now the owner of a ten month old female Basset Hound who greets me with slobbery kisses and a wagging tail when I get home from work and is nothing but a ball of love.
Screw PETA.
Science has shown time and again how very healthy it is to own a dog..how much happier and healthier dog owners are, in so many ways. Maybe cats too, I don’t know. The research on dogs as pets is overwhelming.
Stuff it Ingrid. Peta went to China and asked a man to skin a dog alive so they could make a film of it and pretend it always happens that way when it does not. They don’t care about animals at all .I hate Peta.
Not the ones around here. They're spoiled rotten.