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Warning: animal death zomgwtf
This is so horrible.
It was posted to fark.com with a "Sick" tag and everyone disagreed, claiming it was a good idea. If it worked, I think it would be a good idea. But it can't, won't work.
I mean, yes, it's good to spread awareness -- pet shelters can't keep an animal indefinitely, and the animals will be killed if they aren't adopted. Maybe it's even good to let people know how long an animal has to live: does Dog A have six months while Dog B has only two weeks? If you're torn between two animals, this might help to make the humane decision.
But this doesn't really strike me as helping. It strikes me as guilting and horrifying the same people who were already inclined to buy an animal from a shelter. It's not like the people who buy animals at pet shops go to shelters and then say, "This place isn't as clean and elegant as the pet shop. Let's get a pet from there instead."
Instead, you're just making people who were already going to buy them feel horrible about being only to adopt one, or not being able to adopt one that's more at risk. Or worse -- compelling people to adopt when they don't want to, or adopting whatever animal is most at risk instead of an animal that really works for them. And animals that don't work and aren't wanted? They'll wind up back in the shelter.
If you really want people to get animals from animal shelters, stop making it so hard to adopt from them!
It was posted to fark.com with a "Sick" tag and everyone disagreed, claiming it was a good idea. If it worked, I think it would be a good idea. But it can't, won't work.
I mean, yes, it's good to spread awareness -- pet shelters can't keep an animal indefinitely, and the animals will be killed if they aren't adopted. Maybe it's even good to let people know how long an animal has to live: does Dog A have six months while Dog B has only two weeks? If you're torn between two animals, this might help to make the humane decision.
But this doesn't really strike me as helping. It strikes me as guilting and horrifying the same people who were already inclined to buy an animal from a shelter. It's not like the people who buy animals at pet shops go to shelters and then say, "This place isn't as clean and elegant as the pet shop. Let's get a pet from there instead."
Instead, you're just making people who were already going to buy them feel horrible about being only to adopt one, or not being able to adopt one that's more at risk. Or worse -- compelling people to adopt when they don't want to, or adopting whatever animal is most at risk instead of an animal that really works for them. And animals that don't work and aren't wanted? They'll wind up back in the shelter.
If you really want people to get animals from animal shelters, stop making it so hard to adopt from them!
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