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JulieRobynJ

Is this considered Animal Abuse/Cruelty?

**Posted:** Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:06 pm

teddy bear

Hi, Julie! You can also introduce yourself in detail in a thread that was specially made for new people at this forum. It's a nice place to meet others and say hello. There is also a questionaire that you can fill out about various animal rights topics.

Anyway, it's nice to meet you. Although you didn't handle the situation very well, I am more concerned about the fact that you have pure-breeds for companion animals. I am not sure if you bought them or not, but they are always helpless victims of a system them objectifies living and feeling creatures and reduces them to slaves and things.

So, this situation happened when you were 14, and now you started thinking you are a bad mommy? You were a kid, in her teen years, influenced by hormones. Kids are like that. It is also one reason why no child should be given care over another animal's life.

**Posted:** Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:16 pm

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panthera

Hi Julie, your heart is obviously in the right place. Yes, it was too rough--would you have done that to a human being? But I think it's time to say, "yes I regret having done that, I will not do anything like that again," and then move on. You seem to be using the incident for something--I'm not sure what. Maybe as a way to get people to like you, b/c you feel so guilty about it? Embarassed

Let's be honest. Everyone here has enacted far worse cruelty for years and years, simply by not being vegan for all of our lives. So you were actually being far crueler to many more animals, for many more years, than you ever were to Shasta. But now you're stopping, right? Smile

We do have residual guilt. It's hard to get over stuff from the past (I still carry around a lot of guilt from my family's neglect of a dog 20-30 years ago). But you'll probably find a lot more energy to give Shasta now, and to explore animal rights, when you've let this incident go.
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**Posted:** Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:44 am

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GoldenGlitters · Tourist Joined: 11 Apr 2010 Posts: 7

Don't beat yourself up. I consider myself to be one of the biggest animal lovers on this planet, but when I was younger, I once hit my cat pretty harshly with a broom because she was being "bad" and annoyed the heck out of me. But, I was just a kid and I have learned from that situation. Nothing unusual, humans spank their kids for misbehaving. lol.

**Posted:** Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:26 am