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This makes owning a pet sound inhumane
If you ignore them all day, definitely. Pet ownership is a contract.
My dog gets to come along with me on most of my adventures, and I work from home. He spends the vast majority of his time with his humans doing stuff.
When I'm home and he's chilling in the backyard, he has his friends (dogs and humans) who visit him through our back alley, he has a rich social life.
I think he lives a fulfilling life.
I feel like my two dogs have fulfilling lives as well. My husband and I work different shifts, so they're not without a human for long, and when they are they have each other. They get a lot of outings.
There are certain pets where I imagine it is. I've been holding off getting a bird because I'm grappling with the idea that most pet-type birds are wildly social creatures, and locking them up alone for 8+ hours a day isn't fair. And having an entire flock of budgies may not be realistic
Some people have a bird room. Alternatively, you could go through the Falconry certification process to get a sky doggie that you need to take hunting periodically or it goes stir crazy
These are both good ideas and I will chew on it. I'd never heard of falconry certification before - I just assumed those who did it just knew how to train them (kind of like training dogs lol). Thanks!
What I know is that there is an apprenticeship process, where they see if you have what it takes to care for a raptor. They are delicate little apex predators and need lots of love. They are also borderline endangered because of pesticides making their eggs weak and prone to cracking. I'm sure you've heard of the falcon sex hat? It was invented to solve the problem of failed eggs by making many more of them than normal.
the way a lot of people treat their pets definitely is, the only valid way to own a pet is to treat it as part of your family. The best pet owners are the ones who refer to them as their child, they unquestioningly take good care of them.
That's definitely us with our cat, even though we are all he has in this world, I don't think he'd wish for more if he could.
Apart from us to come outside in the backyard with him. When we're outside he's happy
It's capitalism keeping us from having home lives that is the inhumane part.
What are the odds in the year 3000, pet ownership will be seen as a blemish on history? “In yee olden thymes, they had nazis… meat eaters… pet owners… $your_chosen_political_party-s…”
we've had pets for at least like 10'000 years now, i don't think it's going to become unacceptable any time soon.
What i do think is likely is for there to be laws regulating pet ownership, just like how we remove children from the care of irresponsible parents. I think i recall sweden introducing some laws on needing to register the ownership of pet cats and dogs, or something along those lines.