Are you sensitive to animals and their rights?

I love all animals. I disagree with you that they are inferior to us.

I agree with @marinelife much of the problems with animal rights comes from the thinking that they are inferior to us. They aren’t. We are all animals.

@marinelife I’m talking from a general mind in this world. Animals wouldn’t be where they are today if human beings thought they weren’t inferior to us.

Animals are not inferior to us. I understand the context you’re writing that in, but I still don’t like saying it. I am a huge animal lover, I would kill a person seen hurting an animal. And by kill I mean slowly torture until he/she dies of the pain I inflict on him/her. I think I would call that me being sensitive.

@Ayesha Do you know how I wish there were more people like you? That is my biggest desire in life. :/

@Earthflag I wish the same.

I am sensitive to all animals, EXCEPT this new puppy I have just bought. She is a terror!

She is a Great Pyrenees. She is four months old and weighes 65 pounds.

She is Conad The Destructo.

She believes in “goosing” the people she loves and attempting to eat the house.

Her name is Maggie and driving me crazy.

Right now, Maggie thinks she runs the show(and probably does).

I respect Maggie, but she does not respect anything. She is constantly biting my hands and arms. She has learned respect for the fly swatter. She is wild.

Two more weeks and if Maggie is still hyper, its back to the dog pound for her.

Bad boy, bad boy whatch gonna do
Whatch gonna do when they come for you
Bad boy, bad boy.

@john65pennington No!! Kiss Maggie for me. That’ll make things better :)

@john65pennington Lol I guess most puppies are like that… Just give her some gifts, and she will appreciate you and understand you are his daddy! Also, do tricks like ask her to shut the heck up, then give her biscuits or something haha! I remember my dog, Simba. He was my best friend for 11 years. When he first came, he was so hyper, he chewed down the whole house! But then he knew he was my soul :D

I try not to be a speciesist.

However, I’m also a realist. Humans are much better to animals than nature is, and I don’t think we get enough credit for it. For example, when we want to eat a cow, we knock it out before quickly killing it. When a cheetah wants to eat a gazelle, it chases the damn thing down so it lives its last minute in utter fear, then bodily rips its throat out while it writhes on the ground in pain.

Humans 1, Cheetah 0.

Very sensative to the rights of animal and beyond. It is the very reason why I am on a Conservation Commission and active in safeguarding natural habitats for plants and wildlife.

@Seek_Kolinahr But, it is the nature. Human can survive without eating animals. what about the fur industry? We can survive. Pleasure does not mean to take advantage from things that breath and see.

Absolutely, I’m a lifelong animal/bird lover.
My current avatar represents my love of mountain lions which are plentiful in my mountain/foothill zone here in the Sierras.
I have volunteered at a wildlife rescue, specializing in waterfowl rehab and have had just about everything known to man, from parrots to horses and all in between.
Currently I have one female Tortie point siamese and my beloved pair of white chinese geese, ” Marwyn & Sonora” who are 6 and 13 years old.

She is Marwyns second wife of 3 years after he lost his original mate of 10 years in 2008 due to chronic lameness that I treated for several years with a local avian vet.
Sonora was a domestic dumpee that was pulled out of a lake with a fish hook in her eye. She lost the eye but gets around just fine. She also has a bad hock and I give her Metacam daily with a syringe.

They are very spoiled geese, living in a custom enclosure of a horse corral wired off with weld wire, with a custom barn, stall mats, 2 swimming pools and his and hers beach umbrellas. lol

I have also landscaped their corral with smoke trees, bamboos and various potted plants along with a big oak tree for extra shade and haul in truck loads of soft sand to create a soft footing and beach like conditions. haha

I purchase organic dandelion greens for them and they get daily gourmet salads poolside along with an acre of lawn to graze.

They are my darlings!

The best kept geese in america I am certain. :-)

Yes, we can survive without eating animals if we choose to. However, I feel no moral obligation to force myself to do so.

I am beginning a journey to a quasi-vegetarian diet for health reasons, but I’m not going to cease cooking meat for my family.

I’m pretty sure the ornamental fur industry is nearly dead, at least in the United States. Besides that, if people are going to kill a cow for meat anyway, I have no objection to using every part of the cow, particularly its skin for leather. In fact, it would be shamefully wasteful to do otherwise.

@Seek_Kolinahr Seals… They beat them up to kill so that their furs won’t be damaged. And many silly reasons… I think if one thing is an issue, it will be an issue no matter how smart certain things sound like. People will keep doing it many ways…

Honestly – who’s buying a seal pelt in the United States?

@Seek_Kolinahr I don’t know exactly who by name, but It is being sold, therefore it is being bought.

Violence is never the answer. We lead by example, and the best example is being a model of kindness and compassion.

Those that treat animals badly are ignorant and unwell. Healthy humans with some measure of “enlightenment” believe, KNOW, on a deeply felt and profound level, the interconnectedness of everything.

They have reverence for all life forms and even if they choose to partake of eating certain animals they adovocate quality of life and as humane a death as is possible.

I like the native american way, brother buffalo is honored for his contribution of life sustaining energy.

I cry when I see any animal in pain. Honestly, I cry so hard.

I no longer eat any animal products, including dairy.

For the health of my body.
For the protection of the animal kingdom
For the health of the planet.

@john65pennington When she attempts to bite you, say “ow, ow, ow” in a loud, high-pitched voice. That will elt her know she is hurting you, and she will stop.

If she tries to jump on you, turn your body one quarter turn, while saying “no” sharply. That will make her fall off. If she repeats, then you repeat the turn and the No.

Do not pay any attention to her if she gooses you, just turn one quarter turn away from her. Do not speak to her or pet her until she is quiet. When she is quiet, praise her.

Four months old is too young to expect her to be quiet in two weeks. Why not instead enroll in a puppy class with her. You will be amazed at the improvement in her behavior.

Yes. I’ve been a vegetarian for about 7 years now. I don’t buy leather/animal materials unless it’s from a thrift store (it’s not increasing the supply and demand if you’re buying it second-hand). I’m sure there are still things that I consume that in some way harm animals, but as I learn more, I try to wean them from my life. I think that most (most, not all) people in America are privileged enough to not have to benefit from animal suffering.

I don’t really have anything against hunting (for use, not for ‘fun’) because I think it puts the predator and the prey on more of an equal standing. It’s not just breeding animals for the purpose of slaughtering them. You actually have to hunt, as you would in nature.

Well…one can only do their part. Pick your poison I always say.

I live on 5 natural, oraganic acres, keep geese for pets, boycott goose down products, pate, use no chemicals, pesticides on my property, have a mini wildlife refuge going on…but, I will have Turkey for Thanksgiving…so shoot me. lol

I also feed about 50 wild turkeys on my mountain and every seed eating songbird on this hill grows fat and happy on my geese feed along with the turkeys. I have Towhees and Juncos and sparrows that come into my garage to clean up the spilled grain by the containers.

Bird nests around here are lined with my goose feathers and horse hair.

Just do your part and don’t waste energy being a bleeding co-dependent of the world.

BE the change you wish to see in your own way. EVERY contribution counts.

Are you sensitive to animals and their rights?
In practice, more so than I am to most peoples.

Dogs don’t care what color you or your dog is.
Dogs have never killed, for the joy of killing.
Dogs never attack without reason.

You can beat a dog, starve him, abandon him, scold him, punish him without reason, and he will forgive you, and continue to love you. I say dogs are better than us.

The reason dog is mankind’s best friend is because dogs are the most forgiving animals on the planet.