https://youtu.be/Kpa4w5l66Hg
- @MicTheVegan
I really liked Mic The Vegan's approach very much, I'm not used to listening to people targeting tough matters with such objectivity without surrending to the easiest conclusion that exhausts our brains the less possible.
Although, as stated in the video, companion animals help us to improve our emotional state. Enclosing animals into the four walls of our small houses will be the very last resource for someone who honestly love justice.
If I love a girl, I don't force her to stay with me; rather I make sure she is emotionally better with me, than without me.
The same principle must be applied to all others I share my existence with. In the case of a daugther/son, it's obvious she/he won't make it by herself/himself, she/he will need us, the mother and me. Still it is selfish and weak giving birth to children just because we felt alone and senseless. Strong and wise people plan their children so we keep evolving our species. Of course there is joy in the process, but joyness is the goal of the weak, and the path of the strong (no quotes, my opinion).
With pets, we have screwed their lives up. Dogs and cats are vulnerable, so dismissing stray dogs or cats implies playing with their survival likelihood; not only because there are emotionally broken armed people wandering the streets, but also because those same people are driving cars, "protecting" their food, "their" territories and resources in general, against any foreigner no matter if it doesn't represent a threat. And to top it all, other animals that are stressed by hunger and fear represent another survival challenge to them. Leaving animals to wander cities on their own is as immoral as enclosing them in the boring shelters we are building for us, with the bunch of duties we have to attend in order to live appropriately that prevent us to give them all the attention an intelligent being eagerly demands almost all the time they are awake (as any healthy human child will do). But at least we could do whatever is on our hands to make it as less immoral as possible to enclose them into our houses; by excercising them, playing and integrating them socially to our families as much as possible, besides the mere cares of feeding them and healing them when getting sick.
It is not a rule they will be better with us, let's not use that as an excuse, let's objectively assess each animal particular situation. I have seen animals that are looked after by neighbors who feed them and respect them, so they have no physical ties beyond the understanding of their own interest to survive near kind people who didn't need to force anyone, nor being forced to, coexist peacefully.
Last, I'd like to emphasize Mike's (Mic The Vegan) point about food since some people had expressed to me concerns about feeding dogs with a diet they have not decided to adopt. Our dogs have not decided anything in most of the cases (with the exceptions like a dog that adopted me and didn't leave when I have given him the chance, because this is not a jail). I swear dogs would rather eating fresh meat than the dry food some of us have fed them with and we are not really sure what they are made of; they would rather hang around the streets while we are not at home instead of waiting a long day for us to come back, every day; they would rather got pregnant lots of times no matter the welfare of the puppies in the long term. There are many decisions they are not able to do, that that cannot be used as an excuse not to find the way to protect other species from ourselves, especially if it hasn't been used before for less noble causes.
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