Sunday, July 27, 2008
Pets – is it fair?
We all love animals, at least that’s what most people claim. More so, people who love animals also like to keep them as pets. I too once kept a pet – a rabbit. I found it really cute and decided to give it a shot. However, after some time I realized that I was unable to keep the rabbit happy. Probably the rabbit just missed other rabbits. Or maybe it was just me. Overall, I realize that as much as I like animals, it’s just not fair to keep them as pets, that too alone. It’s about as bad as keeping them in a cage. Some animals, specially dogs seem to do fine with human attentions, they can probably related to them and interact them. But animals lower in the food chain, with lesser developed senses, like rabbits, fishes, turtles, birds, are not able to connect. You may be taking the best care possible, but you are a human at the end of the day!
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I guess what you say makes complete sense. Most of these pets are kept with the least human interaction too.
Or is it that they do not want that human interaction? I am not too sure, but either way they are not able to communicate.
But, recently I came across a blog by a woman who had close to 12 mice as pets... they were free in the house and she has a pic with all of them all happily snuggled into her lap as she watches TV... I guess for them its a good thing... they have the best of both worlds...
that's true! as long as they have company and are taken care of, I think it's fine. It's when they are alone when it's not so nice!
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