Cats, dogs, horses etc. sometimes I just do not get it ??

Could this just be a rant? Where do you see that occurring? You get to decide what is most important to you - what your priorities and values are. What others do is their business - what they value is up to them.



What brought this on?

For what it's worth ... The other day there was a little Wasp/Maybe Bee trying to escape through the window, so I let them out and I'm sure they did a little "dance" to say "Thank You."

I gave a cockroach a break two days ago!

Where do you see that occurring?

Because these people have a connection and a bond with their animals like 2 humans bonding with each other .

That animal is a life too although it is not human .

I'm probably guilty of what you are talking about. There are those that see them as pets or animals, but I see them as more than that.

At the end of the day, it's still a dog and I know that. If I had to make a choice of who to save, I'd save a stranger over my dogs but then probably die going back to try and save them.

But I don't let most people I know come take a dump in my yard, jump on me, or give me kisses. In that sense, I treat my dogs better than the neighbors.

To me in my day-to-day thinking they aren't no name dogs. They have names, personalities, different barks, etc. Their names are Pearl, 妞妞, Joy, and 樂樂 not "hey dog" or some generic nonsense.

One other thing to consider is how our dogs treat us. Mine listen to me, don't talk back, have never laughed at me or gossiped about me, or thought I was too fat/poor/slow/stupid/did I say fat. Now if humans treated other humans that way, we may be able to improve our society and close the divide which seems to grow deeper every day.

Mark

A cat goes without saying.

Lol, it was more of a case he was in a plastic bag, and it was "squish or not to squish", Claude would be familiar with that predicament.

Well because an animal will never betray you like people do this days .You cannot trust anymore these days ,everyone look for interests your money etc

It's all about what matters to people and they do it the way it suits them. I can agree with you that some people treat their pets better more than they do with human beings and I'm very sure that they have their reasons for doing so.

The same thing is also applicable to those who treat their pets like animals and punish them like slaves. I watch a clip last 2 months if I remembered correctly where a West Ham player was beating his cat and filmed it. What does that tell you?

Hmm... I think everything is concluded in one simple truth. Cats dogs and horses are weaker than people anyway, and when we see the news, where human beings mock the animals - it causes a particular brain flows, I mean - rage and agression. It makes us pissed off just because we understand that the animals are defenseless - they must be treated equally to people.

It doesn't mean that people also have to be mocked in order to become equal to animals. It does mean that the level of cruelty which the society has nowadays is an increased one. We have to struggle to decrease this level and hence we should educate those people who mock on weaker living beings.
Sometimes - it's useless, because the most part of people who harm animals are sick ones and they must be either incarecarted or put into psychiatric facility (in case they are mentally unhealthy).
There are no ways to struggle with such people. When this level of cruelty will be decreased, people start equally relate both to animals and other people.

Projection is one cause.

The ego projects concepts like innocence, sincerity, unconditional love and perfection (in some ways) onto pets because pets or domestic animals cannot:

- say horrible things to us in the English language
- abuse us in the same way that people do
- hurt us in the same way that people do

Animals seem somewhat safe, since they cannot hurt us as people hurt us in the past, so some folks value their lives more than humans.

The trick-challenge is to learn to forgive humans, then, you begin to see the equality of everyone in mind (humans, animals), then, you see in short glimpses how we are all one versus separated. In those moments, there is nothing or no one to judge because no differences or separation exists in one whole entity, mind, or whatever folks may call God, the Universe, etc.

Ryan

tbh I figure most pets are stoopid.

Hamstahs jus' trundle round their wheels, fill their faces with hamstah munch, then die suddenly.

Cats don't gaht no frickin' cloo, but radiate a mystique says they do. Our bad.

Dahgs purport to be faithful, but will gladly hunt in a pack if'n you ain't around, an' their lick juice can infect your stomach with parasites for a zillion years.

Fish.

Fish.

Fish.

Yeah, c'mon, frickin' WAKE UP, you morons.

Hey, plus also horses are naht pets.

They kinda speshlists.

As are cows, elephants, an' certain kinds of performin' geese.

(Actschwlly, them performin' geese are the bestest evah speshlists of all once you trained 'em up to mastah karaoke.)

For sure, you would naht wanna treat nonea these glorious animyools crool or heartless.

Jus' as you would not wanna invite harm upon a person -- teeth fallin' out, or babe.

But it is in the naychoore of kindness an' regard that we realise our lack of infinite choice.

One way we see this is ... why send money ovahseas when our own people are dyin'?

Why save goats from EVIL GOAT HUNTAHS when we can protein up on goats an' go slay evil goat huntahs?

Why care 'bout a malnootritioned frickin' opossum when sum actschool kid in your neighborhood gowin' hungry?

Perhaps it is necessary to have such a leap from close up an' personal to the widah good.

Bcs it would be all too easy to suck evrythin' back to yusself.

That is what happens less'n there is widah regard.

It is naht a competition.

People who will scream in outrage if an animal is mistreated will step over a homeless person in the street and pretend not to see them.

I flat out love animals but would take the food out of their mouths to feed a hungry human, and I don't even like them in general.

The world has gone topsy turvy for real.

Because animals don't choose their circumstances....they have no control over what happens to them. Each person chooses what is most important to them...which is how it should be.

I don't know anyone who is homeless or hungry by choice.

You should fervently hope you never find yourself in that position.

Thread has gone totally off topic.