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personally, I believe that it’s highly disrespectful to animals to believe that they’re all naturally pure and good-hearted. I believe that individual animals are just like people, in that some of them are naturally inclined to be cool and some of them are naturally inclined to be complete assholes

we’ve all known people who had dogs and cats who have experienced 100% trauma-free and loving lives who are still just complete bastards. we also all know people who are the same way.

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animals are complicated individuals who desire respect and consideration, and that means accepting that some individual animals just have toxic vibes/are bad to be around

Have had many; rehabbed quite a few abused that turned violent. & yeah, some are just assholes (especially true of roosters). But the absolute worst horse/goat/dog/cat/llama/pig/bear/fisher cat/lizard/snake I’ve ever encountered was still far easier to deal with than your average human dickhead.

My grandma had a horrid little dog that hated everyone but her 100% of the time and hated her about half the time. Her third husband, before they got married, told her, "It's me or the dog." She got rid of the dog without a second thought and everyone was glad of it.

Does dolls cat knock things over because shes understimulated? No shes got more toys and stuff to do than a spoiled child. Dolls cat is just a villian.

There are people who feel indignant when someone adopts a pet and then returns it when the relationship doesn't work — as if animals didn't have personalities and characters somewhat like people do, as if forcing incompatible creatures isn't cruelty.