Maybe she wants to keep it crunchy 🤷

Yeah this is one of the things keeping me from using Lemmy as much. I am subscribed to multiple Steam Deck, Patient Gamer, and technology communities and they all have different levels of activity and I see a lot of duplicate posts.

I believe this would help a lot

I don’t necessarily subscribe to this idea, but everything seems to ridiculous to me at this point. Idk how to explain it, but I feel like there was a big change in reality. Everything is so different than it used to be. Not sure if it’s just me aging and being more conscious of certain things, or if there was actually a change.

Things are off and idk how to explain it

Hahaha happens to the best of us

Same, I have a dog and I love him a lot. After owning this dog for a while and seeing how smart he is, I would feel guilty owning another pet in the future I think.

Also, a question that I’ve had for a while is, if they actually don’t have a conscious or if we just don’t know if they have a conscious since we can’t understand them. Recently there havebeen more and more studies that show that dogs are self aware. I think just the fact that they have different personalities and that they have favorite toys, foods, sides of the bed, etc. shows that they at are conscious enough to make decisions yk. How could we say that they’re smart enough to choose what to sleep, but not how to live?

With the amount of domestication and inbreeding we have done to dogs, i doubt they will survive if they are not pets. I see that as the most unfortunate part. I’m really interested in what the future in animal rights will look like, but tbh I’m not invested enough to participate lol

I don’t necessarily think your first point will happen, at least not anytime soon, but I do agree with it.

It’s so weird to me that we as humans have the ego to want to control another living thing. Control what they can and cannot do, make them live in a small place, and generally just strip them from their freedom they should have as a living thing, and still feel like we’re giving them a good life.

Also there are way too many shitty owners. I for real think there should be some sort of license/course people need to take before owning a pet. So many incidents that leave the pets or other humans hurt.

I agree, and I wonder when stuff like this will begin to happen.

Also, I think that once the average person finds out just how smart aquatic life is, we will look back at stuff like sea world with more disgust than we already do.