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denMy euthanasia activities have earned me hate mail. According to *someone*@hotmail.com I should have tried to save the pigeon.
I like GreenPeace and animal rights activists and the work they do. But sometimes their members' "save the animal at all costs" mentality disregards the welfare and quality of life of the animal. Saving a wild animal so injured that it may never be released and must live in a small cage isn't saving the animal at all.
I like GreenPeace and animal rights activists and the work they do. But sometimes their members' "save the animal at all costs" mentality disregards the welfare and quality of life of the animal. Saving a wild animal so injured that it may never be released and must live in a small cage isn't saving the animal at all.
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Date: 8 Dec 2002 20:43 (UTC)Especially if they're the standard sort that complain about such things and have never actually stepped forth into the squickiness of trying to actually help.
Personally, I'll admit I'm far too easily squicked to do such nifty and helpful things as you do for the animals. I appreciate that someone does, though, and you're a friend whose judgment I trust.
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Date: 8 Dec 2002 21:45 (UTC)Exactly. Nobody who hasn't gotten their own goddamned hands dirty saving lives has no right to bitch about the terrible, needful actions that people like you take every time you rescue an animal. Jesus. These are the same idiots who say that it's "unethical" to milk dairy cows, and try to "free" them... so the cows die in agony in a few days, because they can't survive without being milked. Yes, we've bred them to be that way; and yes, there's points for debate there, but "freeing" them is even more wrong - short-sighted and stupid.
*siiiiiiigh*