#// animal abuse mention

[frostedpuffs]

one of the saddest things abt having a rescue animal in which you don't know its past is just being able to tell they were abused at some point in their life. i've had my cat bella for about a year now—she appeared in my yard one day out of nowhere, with an injured leg, skin infection, and full of worms, and even though she was terrified of me at first, i earned her trust enough to take her to the vet. spent weeks earning her love and nursing her back to health. she was microchipped, and her previous "owner" lived over a two hour drive away. despite numerous attempts to get this woman to come pick up her cat she said she wanted, she never came, which is for the best. i know there is no way that cat walked that far. i know she was dumped. but legally i had to try to contact the owner. on the final phone call with her, she confessed she was not coming for the cat, and ghosted me after that.

anyway, after a few months trying and failing to find this cat a home with multiple people saying they wanted her and then changing their minds, i finally decided to take her in for good because i knew i had the capacity to care for her and this whole jumping around homes thing was not good for her. even though i was really afraid of how she and my other cats would get along

nowadays bella sits on my desk every single night, happy, healthy, well cared for and well fed, but even though I've never shown this cat anything but love and kindness, she still flinches when i move. she still becomes defensive and bites or scratches me if i move in a certain way that scares her. she still carries that fear with her. i can show this cat as much love, patience, and care as i can, but it will never take away the fact that earlier in her life, someone she trusted hurt her and abandoned her. and i will never stop feeling sick knowing that somewhere within the first 6 years of this cat's life, she was living in fear & being hurt by someone. but i have no proof other than how she behaves. but i know what causes that behavior. and i am so glad she has me now, someone who she can spend the rest of her life with, knowing nothing but love. im at least thankful that out of all the yards to randomly appear in, she chose mine

[yardsards]

hot take but you all NEED to stop telling people to kill themselves.

yes, even *those* people. i don't care if you're talking to some monster who puts live puppies into a wood chipper for fun, don't say that shit.

because mx. puppychipper isn't gonna be affected by your words.

but you know who might be affected? some innocent third party reading the words you said on a public website.

because telling people to kill themselves says "suicide is a punishment for being a bad person. bad people, upon realizing they're bad, should simply commit suicide instead of working to atone for their actions."

and that is NOT a message you wanna be normalizing to anyone, but ESPECIALLY people with depression (who, let's be real, make up a higher than average chunk of this site's userbase). whose mental illness is already telling them that 1: they're an inherently terrible worthless person no matter what they do 2: death is an appealing option.

is reading "kill yourself" once or twice gonna make them do it? nah, probably not. but reading it multiple times a day every day is gonna make their mental health worse. it's probably not good for your mental health to be saying that kind of thing, either.

just knock that shit off. the world is already so hostile to people with mental illness, and managing mental illness and unlearning unhealthy thought patterns is already so difficult. you don't need to be out here making it worse.

[just-antithings]

on a post about animal abuse and welfare when it comes to a certain breed of cat. would it kill this person to focus on the actual animals that are suffering over their owners taste in fiction?

[chaifootsteps]

After the turnover rate reveal, I just have to ask Vivzie Stans one thing: How much is too much for you guys?

How many people does she need to fuck over, how many posts from former friends and mistreated workers need to be made, how much studio money does she need to keep to fund her lifestyle, how many animators does she need to burn through before the camel’s back breaks and you realize that Viv isn’t that good of a person? This much shit being told about can’t all just be a bunch of haters looking to crap someone innocent, especially when it’s in such a niche group such as indie animation. Does she need to stomp a box of puppies before you figure that out and stop supporting her?

I can think of a couple of people I suspect would still be on her side even if she did.

[ohsleepie]

Oh look, it's the cat-coded mofo folding his arms and being like "Baka, it's not like I love you or anything." and the dog-coded dipshit being all lovey-dovey to the cat-coded mofo and wagging his tail. 🙄 Is there any wonder cat abuses and dog attacks are so common?

I cannot read the tone of this message at fucking all. Um...anyway heres some more of that for you whether you like it or hate it. Yeah okay bye

[lowkeiloki]

the way hamster abuse is so normalized on the internet makes my fucking skin crawl

[sophieinwonderland]

I remember a while back you making a post about people being attracted to animals? I’m pretty sure it was in regards to alterhumans and stuff , but I’d like, like to ask for a simpler explained version cause I couldn’t quite understand what point you were trying to get across with it???

This was a while ago.

But I think overall my points were...

Zoophilia (a paraphiliac attraction to animals) is separate from bestiality (engaging in sexual activity with an animal). The latter is always wrong as animals do not have the minds to consent.

Zoophilia, by its most broad definition, can encompass things like petplay or attraction to animal art. Even fictional animals.

While bestiality is wrong because animals cannot consent, I don't believe in thought crimes.

If you stigmatize thought crimes of being attracted to animal forms, you will likewise WILL stigmatize attraction to animal-identifying headmates and other alterhumans.

I view virtual reality as the next frontier of alterhumanity. A world where alterhumans can take whatever forms they want, with appearances mirroring their kintypes and internal identities. Stigmatization of explicit animal art WILL result in stigmatization of explicit VR models for alterhumans, which is bad for all alterhumans.

I want a world where alterhumans can use virtual reality, take whatever forms they want, having intimate relationships in those forms, without facing prejudice for that. And to me, part of that means we need to decouple the association of "attraction to animal forms" from actual animal abuse.

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

🦊

Logan doesnt mind humane hunting for food, but he is really not a fan of it for fun or for sport. he quickly gains a reputation after becoming the lord for being something of a "killjoy" (read, gets really fucking angry if an animal is baited or inhumanely killed in front of him) among the other nobility, for whom animal fighting and blood sport is a ubiquitous form of entertainment

[thewickerking]

final message: i love you people who were "scary" children. i love you people who attacked other people, who hurt animals, who destroyed people's things, on purpose or on accident. i love you people who got labeled "creepy" or "problem child" or "attention-seeking" or "manipulative". i love you people who got kicked out of class or suspended often, who got kicked out of schools, who transferred before you could get kicked, who didn't understand why they got in trouble. i love you students who failed classes, who'd cry in class, who'd sleep through class, who got sent to unhelpful counselors. you weren't at fault for being a struggling child, and i love you if you struggle feeling overwhelmingly guilty for how you acted as a child, and i love you if you dont. i especially love you if you struggle to see yourself as a good person because of whatever you did as a child. i love you people who cant remember what you did, but are told it makes you bad. you are not defined by the actions of your child self, and you are able to choose who to be as you are now. if you have the capacity and interest to make amends, you can, and its also okay to not do that and just leave it all behind. i love you all the same.

[cafe-mouse]

New friend! Everyone meet Applesauce ♡

(more about Applesauce below cut)

-Applesauce's former owner was evicted from their home recently and abandoned her at their old house along with her gerbil roommate (they were in the same cage together, which is most likely the reason why the end of her tail is missing). I was able to adopt her from my local shelter just last night and she already made fast friends with my other female mouse Sweetpea, who is 2.5 years old (she had a couple cagemates but her last friend that was even older than her passed recently). They've been snuggling and sleeping together under a hide most of this morning and I'm so happy that they're getting along so well despite how much more energetic Applesauce is than her

-Very hyper adventurous little mouse that loves digging and climbing

[edraculation]

A Non-Exhaustive And Imperfect Explanation As To Why Declawing Cats Is Animal Abuse, Aka Me Promoting The Paw Project For Approximately 8 Paragraphs

okay, I'm dropping the quirk for this. too much text to be capitalizing every word.

for most people, not declawing your cats is common sense, but for some ignorant individuals physically removing an animal's body parts to make their existence as palatable as possible is commonplace. yes, i phrased that aggressively on purpose. i have no respect for these people.

before we get into it, below is a diagram of a cat claw for reference. the quick (pink tissue bit inside the claw) doesn't usually go down that far, but that's not important.

memorize how that works for a second. cool. moving on.

now that you know how the claw works, let's look at what actually happens when a cat is declawed.

yikes. uh huh. freaky ass visual, isn't it?

you may be noticing that it looks a whole lot like detaching bones, and that's because that's exactly what it is. it's a common misconception, even within anti-declawing groups, that removing a cat's claw is equivalent to pulling out a human's fingernail; when it's actually far closer to removing the entire first finger bone.

you're probably pretty uncomfortable right now, thinking about having part of your finger torn off. if you weren't already thinking about that, sorry for putting that in your brain.

perhaps, to distract yourself, think about getting through daily life without the first segments of your fingers. it would make a lot of things difficult, wouldn't it? picking things up, opening just about any packaging, scratching an itch. the list goes on.

what if a cat were in that same situation? no climbing things, no catching their toys, no saving themself when they fall, and so much more. rather important things for a cat to do.

as unthinkable as all of this may sound, the paw project, an amazing organization helping to fight against declawing, estimates that 25% to 43% of cats are declawed.

this means 25% to 43% (that's about 150 to 258 million on the low end, according to a 2023 estimate of the world's domestic cat population) suffer from the exhaustive list of problems associated with declawing. find a more in-depth list of these issues on the paw project's website, linked in the previous paragraph.

i am relying on the paw project website quite a bit, but then again, they are an amazing source for this information. i highly recommend checking out their website for more information on this subject, as i think my wrists are about done with this post.

i would appreciate reblogs if not just to promote the paw project, but they are of course not necessary. thanks for reading.

[just-antithings]

..I'm tired

*screams in neuroscientist* that’s not how this works! that’s not how any of this works!

[fallingsatellive]

Animal lovers when an invasive species is an invertebrate or fish: 👀 guys it's spotted lanternfly season, you know what that means, time for the east coast's most beloved cultural pastime, mercilessly destroying these hellspawn, don't forget to make them suffer as much as possible while you go scorched earth on these motherfuckers, they deserve it for their sins

Animal lovers when an invasive species is a mammal: CAT CULL?! You're literally fucking evil and a heartless monster to say that's ok. Don't hurt the little babies why do you hate animals

[abhainnwhump]

Watching/reading a Whumpee get shackled in a cage and tortured via beatings, eventually breaking under the torture: Mm-hm, very nice.

Watching/reading a dog get kicked once: You monster, you demon. I hope your name gets lost to history. You will lose everything and everyone you love until you are alone in your own regrets with no one to turn to.

[i-need-some-advice-on]

How can a keep living my life and deal woth the fact that the world is a bad place?

I know that someone will probably see me as dramatic or "womp womp" me in their mind, but I really wanted to get this out of my chest. I feel like the world is such a hell place to be, and even tho it has some benefits and good people, I don't see how it's worth it. Everyday I see things about someone that suffered an injustice, a kid that got kidnaped, or how the nature is becoming impossible to save (today for example I saw on the news that there are some capybaras in my country found dead with bullets, and the fact that there are people out there that has the audacy to kill a capybara with a gun made me literally cry). And all these things make me so unmotivated to live. How do I see the good the side of this whole shitshow?

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[therealvinelle]

Do you like Taylor swift

Not really, her songs all sound the same and while she's far from the worst celebrity around, she's not great either. Namely, I have a problem with the fact that she owns not one, but two Scottish Fold cats.

For those who don't know, the Scottish Fold is a Scottish Straight with a mutation keeping its bone and cartilage from developing properly, which leads to the folded ears the breed is named for. This mutation leads to terrible arthritis, the cat spends its entire life in severe chronic pain. By owning two of them Swift is not only owning two cats who will never be healthy nor free of pain unless she keeps them dozed up on painkillers, but she's promoting the breed. And no, there's no such thing as a healthy Scottish Fold, if it was healthy it would be a Scottish Straight.

I have a pretty big problem with her over this.