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#2739869 6-Jul-2021 18:50

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Then there's this.

It does my head in how irresponsible people are with animals. We help out a rescue group by fostering rabbits and it's such a drama finding homes without these sort of people.

Why expect people to behave intelligently and show a sense of responsibility? All the evidence is that such people are very much in the minority. Expect the worst and at least you won't be disappointed.

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#2739871 6-Jul-2021 18:53

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Then there's this.

It does my head in how irresponsible people are with animals. We help out a rescue group by fostering rabbits and it's such a drama finding homes without these sort of people.

Why expect people to behave intelligently and show a sense of responsibility? All the evidence is that such people are very much in the minority. Expect the worst and at least you won't be disappointed.

I disagree. My experience is that the vast majority of people are responsible and try to do the right thing. They may not agree what "the right thing" is but most people aren't d1ckheads

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#2739873 6-Jul-2021 18:59

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Why expect people to behave intelligently and show a sense of responsibility? All the evidence is that such people are very much in the minority. Expect the worst and at least you won't be disappointed.

I disagree. My experience is that the vast majority of people are responsible and try to do the right thing. They may not agree what "the right thing" is but most people aren't d1ckheads

People who abuse animals, either maliciously or through neglect/ignorance, are.

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#2739875 6-Jul-2021 19:03

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Why expect people to behave intelligently and show a sense of responsibility? All the evidence is that such people are very much in the minority. Expect the worst and at least you won't be disappointed.

I disagree. My experience is that the vast majority of people are responsible and try to do the right thing. They may not agree what "the right thing" is but most people aren't d1ckheads

People who abuse animals, either maliciously or through neglect/ignorance, are.

Sure. Most people don't do that.

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#2739880 6-Jul-2021 19:08

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Sure. Most people don't do that.

Tell that to the hundreds of cats that have been dumped on my rural property. Most people are fine, until the animals become an inconvenience. A small number seem to think there is something entertaining about torturing them.

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#2739881 6-Jul-2021 19:13

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Sure. Most people don't do that.

Tell that to the hundreds of cats that have been dumped on my rural property. Most people are fine, until the animals become an inconvenience. A small number seem to think there is something entertaining about torturing them.

Most people in your community are dumping cats on your property? I don't believe that to be true.

It's not a trivial problem but it's hyperbole to say most people are abusive of animals.

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#2739883 6-Jul-2021 19:23

I don't have numbers. Neither do you. When hungry cats keep turning up here, I think it is more than a few people who are responsible. When I read about depraved kids in town caging cats, covering them in glue, and setting them on fire, I just wish they could be mice in the claws of a cat. (They would probably be better treated.) When I hear about people cutting the paws off a kitten, I just want to vomit. Of course there are plenty of decent, caring, humane people in the world. Unfortunately there are also plenty of the other. Look around. Which ones do you think are winning the war?

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#2739943 6-Jul-2021 20:22

People are not as bad as they are being painted in these forums.

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#2739944 6-Jul-2021 20:25

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Of course there are plenty of decent, caring, humane people in the world. Unfortunately there are also plenty of the other. Look around. Which ones do you think are winning the war?

The decent and caring people. My experience of young people today is that they are far more aware, articulate and decent than people of my generation and significantly more so than my parents generation.

It's far from perfect but it never will be.

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#2739953 6-Jul-2021 21:09

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Bunnies aren't great pets for small children, they're fragile, they generally don't like being handled (though this one must have been reasonably used to it - after it recovered from almost freezing to death and being killed by cats, it was pretty happy - if not to be picked up - but to snuggle and be petted). They're not particularly "responsive" and even if small kids can be trained to not inadvertently torture the poor things, they'll almost inevitably get bored with them once the novelty wears off - which can probably be measured in hours or days - well short of the 8 years or so that bunnies often live.

Oh gawd, friend of mine had a psycho bunny that had been rescued from being the "pet" of a school class. It was... seriously disturbed by its experience with small children. She tried to give it a good convalescent home but it was never really right. Definitely, definitely not pets for small children.

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#2739954 6-Jul-2021 21:10

We have the good fortune to live in a country that upholds certain values, even if not everyone lives by them. I wonder about places like Syria, or Burma, or China, or even America. I wonder if our values govern the majority of people in the world. Maybe they treat animals better than they treat each other. I don't know. Maybe their young people won't be mowed down by automatic weapons the next time they stage a peaceful march. I guess we can always hope.

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#2740288 7-Jul-2021 07:20

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Geektastic: That I waited ages before replacing Apple's awful keyboard with GBoard!

How Apple managed to make swipe typing quite that bad, I have no idea.

It's now tracking your every move. 😇

Yea. But no. It actually isn't. It was that erroneous belief that stopped me from doing it earlier.

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#2740329 7-Jul-2021 09:17

Rikkitic:

I don't have numbers. Neither do you. When hungry cats keep turning up here, I think it is more than a few people who are responsible.

Are you 100% sure they are being dumped and not a feral colony that just keeps re-breeding? Kittens can get pregnant as early as 6 months old (possibly earlier) and in a colony they will just keep pumping more out until they die of essentially exhaustion from being nearly constantly either pregnant or nursing. So what you may be assuming are dumped kittens, are actually just new members of the colony seeking a food source.

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#2740345 7-Jul-2021 09:29

Despite tracking my every move, when I asked google maps to "drive home" last night via android auto, it didn't know where I lived, asked me to enter (via voice) an address as "home", then that failed as google has no idea how my street name is pronounced, trying to pronounce it different ways failed, its several "best attempts" were close but not found - and that happened despite my home address being already saved as a recent destination.

All I wanted was get an approximate ETA on a trip that was several hours long.

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#2740435 7-Jul-2021 10:53

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The difference is that a live cross in America usually crosses to where something is actually happening. Here it is just some breathless reporter standing in front of an empty building where something may have happened a couple days ago. It looks lame, feels lame, is lame.

Or, as recently, a live cross to a reporter at Welllington Railway Station talking about something that happened in Christchurch. Maybe it saves money on office accommodation. "Kimberlee, you're working from Wellington Railway Station front steps this week".

Reminds me of a regular segment in "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" where the "reporter" had to report on an image that he couldn't see, and he just ad libbed based on the audience reaction until he could guess what the scene was.

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