Geezer - You are a think you know it all, profane, condescending, self-centered jerk. Yes, there absolutely are ways to 100% prevent animals from escaping, but that usually requires strict confinement in a smaller cage and that is just cruel. The larger an area you give an animal, the more difficult it is to control it but the better it is for the animal (we take the same approach to children, heck, ourselves when deciding what is safe and what is dangerous). You have to find that balance where the chances of it escaping are minimal and do every precaution you can to prevent it, but that doesn't mean you should keep it locked in a tiny cage 24/7. Zoos are on a whole different scale considering it's 24/7 professional staff, large areas, totally different budgets, etc. If I had the money to hire 3 people to watch after a dog, could afford to purchase a massive yard and surround it with huge walls, etc we're talking completely different circumstances.
You are pulling out unequal analogies and using exhaustive hyperbole to try and prove a point that very few people will agree with you on. Mostly because you advocate animal cruelty, plain and simple. Other than the time you said that you aren't cruel to animals, everything you've said says that you are and are at the 1st chance you see. I am willing to bet that your viper lives in a glass terrarium and that that is your way of preventing its escape. I'm going to say that that is just sad that it spends its life in a small glass cage so that you can look at it once in a while. That's the reason I would never have a pet that is dangerous to others. I could never be happy about having to keep the creature so confined. I'd argue that you are mistreating an animal purely for your own enjoyment.
Not that any of this is even remotely related to my story though. My ferret has not once escaped (although I'm sure some day she will probably find a way to get into the rest of my apartment from the bedroom she is in so I've gone to lengths to ensure that that area is safe and as escape proof as practical as well). In this case, she didn't escape and get hurt, she was in a large, confined area that she was incapable of escaping from without human assistance. She was in an area designated as a pet zone. Explain to me how that is analogous to someone's dog escaping and getting hit by a truck.
Here's how I take your approach to animals: If you had seen the puppy walking down the highway that my friend had you would have thought you only had 3 options. Swerve to hit the dog and put it out of its misery since its owners must hate it so much. Leave the dog on the side of the road because it's too much to help a helpless animal that nobody cares about anyway. Or call animal control because that 3 month old puppy needs to be put down; its owners are too irresponsible. Heaven forbid the idea that perhaps they have a little kid or something who just doesn't know better and left a door open, right? It is OBVIOUSLY the animal's fault if their owner made a mistake or doesn't care about them, right? Punish the animal.
Your language, your tone, heck, your personality are completely obnoxious. Narcissism is not an attractive trait.
nosferatu
No, YOU advocate animal cruelty. YOU are the one whose ferret was screaming because it got slammed in the door. Other people here have to scrape their dead dogs/cats off the road.
Know how many cats and dogs have suffered cruelty as a result of how I was taking care of them as a pet? NONE, ZERO. That's because I DON'T OWN CATS. I don't own dogs, ferrets, vipers, etc.
The issue here is that after the girl saw that your ferret was trapped, she didn't help it. Ever think that maybe she was afraid of getting bitten? Hey, no one's EVER been bitten by a scared animal, have they? :roll:
And THAT'S why people do things like leave their dogs in their front yard unrestrained. They figure, "hey, it doesn't bite me, so it's not gonna bite anyone else." Thing is, it often doesn't work out that way, and the dog DOES bite the first stranger that it sees walking down the street. But whether or not a dog/ferret/cat actually will bite someone else isn't the point. The point is that YOU are deciding that interacting with that animal is a risk that they should take, and NO ONE has any business making that decision for SOMEONE ELSE.
Also, how much NATIVE wildlife do you think dies as a result of people's pets running around? Why should NATIVE birds get eaten by someone's PET, simply because they think it's cruel to keep it inside?
The thing is, you DIDN'T have to not get a ferret in order to keep it from getting hurt. There's one very simple thing you could have done, and that's KEEP AN EYE ON IT. What, do you think that WATCHING IT was cruel? You say that the courtyard is built for people to take their pets there. Well, never mind the humans that interact with it. What about THE OTHER PETS? Consider the possibility that some of the other animals might decide that they don't like your ferret? All of this could have been avoided if you'd just kept an eye on it. That's easy to do, and would have been no more restrictive to the animal than NOT keeping an eye on it.
But that's the thing about pet owners. They're always making excuses.
EDIT: And I once knew a person who NEARLY DIED trying to AVOID a ****ing cat that ran into the road. But I'm sure that pet owners don't give a **** about THAT. Hey, the hell with PEOPLE, all that matters is that my cat gets to be happy and go wherever it wants to.
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