Why am I such a mean, bad person?

[beaniesmommy]

No, it doesn't make you a bad person! Sometimes people just need to shut up. You should have asked if she was a vegetarian or looked if she was wearing leather shoes and said do you know what an aminal had to go through to make those shoes? Hypocrite working at a pet store....

Sorry, I just hate when people come and pour there negativity all over a kind thing.

[jitami]

They've been known to let show dogs out of crates at dog shows, sometimes outside near busy roadways. I'd say a good portion of them believe that all pets should be set free and certainly that NONE should be bred. I can see their view on some subjects, but they are way too radical on most for me to want to have anything to do with. Man has domesticated animals from the beginning of time and as long as they are being treated well I think it's a good thing to get to know, care for, and feel compassion for another species. Anyway...

[Snake lover 3-25]

Sounds like PETA propaganda... sigh...

PETA Kills Animals | PetaKillsAnimals.com

wow read this!!!!!!

[Snake lover 3-25]

um........ i think these people are insane!!!!!

Kentucky Fried Cruelty: The Movie - Torture Camp

[Lori P]

My only personal involvment with Peta was when we got a call several years ago to rescue approx. 100 chinchillas that had been left behind in an abandoned fur factory. We raced over and got the poor things out of the unbelieveably tiny, filthy cages they'd lived in all their lives... many of them were literally cage crazy, bashing themselves over and over into the sides of the cage for stimulation, any stimulation. It was horrible.

Anyway, I called Peta hoping they could refer me to a sanctuary to take them in, and they told me to euthanise them... because no man-made sanctuary could ever truly meet all their needs and give them a completely natural lifestyle. I was floored-- after all that these little things had suffered in those horrid cages, and given that these were the ones lucky enough to be left behind when all the others were taken... we had a chance to give them a real life and Peta didn't even want us trying.

Well, Jamie and I built them a shed attached to a 20 x 20 foot outdoor pen. We set their cages inside the shed and slowly started opening the doors. After a week or so, they started to venture out... and in no time they were scampering everywhere, hiding in the rock piles we'd made them, burrowing into the dirt, racing around and playing, grazing on grass and sunning themselves... they were the most free that they'd ever been, they never had to be isolated in 10 inch by 10 inch cages again, they had soft bedding and fresh air and good food and the freedom to interact and play. They were still confined to a pen tho... so should we have denied them even that bit of freedom and euth'd them at the beginning?? I sure as hell think not... our little pen and shed may not have been perfect, but for them it was heaven after what they'd come from.

They didn't live very long... they seemed to be carrying some kind of upper respitory thing that wiped them out in under a year. But I'd never take back that time they had to feel at least some peace and freedom!!

[jitami]

See now there's a true animal lover Good for you Lori. Thank you for giving them the best life they'd ever had. You guys truly did a wonderful thing and I really appreciate it.

[beaniesmommy]

Oh Lori,

That is a beautiful story. You did a wonderful thing! PETA is just extreme. Go ahead and euthinize them but don't make them into a coat? I don't believe in wearing fur really but... If your telling some one to kill them, it is the same as turning it into a jacket. It is the same thing to me. They are hypocrites too.

[LyrisFlame]

Thanks for your support, everyone. It just irks me sometimes, the stupid things people say.

She doesn't actually run a pet shop - it's a tiny little... oh... let's call it a new age, neopagan shop with books, neat rock, incense, that kind of thing. My boyfriend and I stopped by for some incense (our place smells like fish now lol) and this lady is used to asking me how my life is going and keeps tabs on me. It's actually kind of... weird. She grilled me, my boyfriend, and his step-dad about whether or not he's been treating me well because she knows at one time I was in a bad relationship. She's a bit nosy.

And PETA? Worthless lunatics who are hurting more than helping. I've always thought, if you want to help animals and you are concerned about how they are treated before they die, why are you throwing a bucket of pigs blood (?!Where'd they get THAT from I wonder? Could it be GASP! a DEAD PIG?!?!???)) on little kids at KFC instead of getting jobs in the meat industry and changing things from the inside? I mean, how completely unproductive can you be, throwing blood at people? 0_o

[Snake lover 3-25]

i think their all insane!!!!!! i mean you'd rather kill thousands of cats and dogs why???? because we're not good enough???? they'd rather be shot than live a happy loved life???? um..... okay........

[beaniesmommy]

Oh, I thought that was red paint and the Carrie (Steven King) was pigs blood... Well that is really terrible then!