• DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    dismissing that distinction for no good reason

    Any reason is a good reason to dismiss that distinction. Pets are family. We don’t love them less than human family, or at least decent people don’t.

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      15 days ago

      “Help control the human population, have your children spayed or neutered.” (/s)

      Maybe we shouldn’t dismiss the distinction so readily.

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      15 days ago

      Still, if like takes a shit on you and you have to give up your pets, that’s a little less traumatic than losing your kids.

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        15 days ago

        All I’m hearing is you’re the kind of monster who’d abandon a family member when things get hard.

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          14 days ago

          My ex-wife was worse, she was going to put our dog down when we split up. I am not a dog person to begin with, and I was moving to an apartment so I wasn’t planning on taking him to begin with, but it was quite disturbing how nonchalant she was about it. I was looking into rescues, but we ended up giving him to our neighbors. She moved in with her mom, then immediately got a new dog. We also had 3 cats - I could only have two at my apartment, so I took the two boys, she said she would take the girl, which is the one our daughter had picked out and named… But then she ended up giving her to her brothers.

          Meanwhile, she keeps trying to find ways to get majority custody of the kids, I have to keep fighting for 50/50…