Snail Diaries #172!
Added 2022-07-16 17:57:19 +0000 UTCoh no bro
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Me at cat videos that don’t result in spay and neuter for all adult cats Also poverty and various human rights violations in my birth country 🙃🙃
Kim Miranda
2022-07-17 10:46:57 +0000 UTCOOF
Ves
2022-07-16 22:21:16 +0000 UTCI'm so sad every time I see the fish crammed in tiny spaces! CW: animal death/stress response/animals eating others I was furious every time I saw the freshwater crabs packed in with a bunch of other fish and dozens of their own kind! They often ate each other and the fish in the tank too! Same for "sucker fish" which led to people not wanting them for believing this was the norm. I started sending emails to corporations since I was a teen about the horrible animal conditions and how they shouldn't have them for sale at all if they couldn't accommodate the spaces necessary! Fortunately, whether because of people writing and calling them or for their own corporate greed reasons, I haven't seen a Walmart or similar with an aquatics section in awhile. I hope it stays that way! PS: I also bought feeder fish and mice as pets as a kid and did my best to keep them as happy as all the books and pamphlets I could read at the time informed me of. I hope their lives were at least better than before and ideally fairly happy and low stress 💜
DawnSnowe
2022-07-16 20:49:52 +0000 UTCi was confused..... then i read the comments..... jesus fuck.......
Thomas Tschirn
2022-07-16 18:27:05 +0000 UTCThank you for helping them :’( that must’ve been so heart breaking to watch every day!
Little Tunny
2022-07-16 18:22:30 +0000 UTCWhen I worked overnights as a stocker at Wal-Mart (hell job), I sneakily took care of the bettas. I'd do (safe) water changes, medicate anyone who was sick (ick, mostly) & give everyone a bloodwörm snacc. It broke my heart to see them, so I said F it & risked getting hollered at for "wasting time." Selling animals in stores is so often abhorrent & rife with neglect. I hate it.
Melissa Swanson
2022-07-16 18:18:52 +0000 UTCI feel this so hard 🥲 It’s been like a decade since, but I used to work in the pet department at a Walmart and took on so many sickly fish (including a betta)….. so glad to see the fish tanks in those stores are nowhere near as common as they used to be, that was a nightmare.
Zazz
2022-07-16 18:10:56 +0000 UTCThe lil smiley face on Betta world is a demon
Ray M
2022-07-16 18:09:12 +0000 UTCLike physically we could survive in a 8x8 room for like an indefinite period but ... Mentally and long term physically oh boy oh no
Ray M
2022-07-16 18:08:16 +0000 UTCKnowing what I know now I don't know how anybody let's a kid get a fish or a hamster. We are a cruel stupid species
Ray M
2022-07-16 18:06:08 +0000 UTCjust because**
Zazz
2022-07-16 18:04:27 +0000 UTCok literally i adopted one of my hamsters bc i was buying cat food at a Big Box Pet Supply and they had a table w/ some cages on it and a single piece of printer paper that said something along the lines of "free hamsters" so like. what else was i supposed to do
Franko
2022-07-16 18:04:00 +0000 UTCSame here 🥲 Can we just… NOT keep them in tiny cups……. 😭 Just they CAN survive (for a time) in limited water doesn’t mean they SHOULD
Zazz
2022-07-16 18:03:33 +0000 UTCI just want the saddest looking mf I can find 😭😭
Lee ?
2022-07-16 18:02:33 +0000 UTCI don't think I ever picked out any pet as a kid that didn't seem the most sickly and sad of the bunch... it is in our dna
Little Tunny
2022-07-16 18:01:35 +0000 UTCi feel called out bc almost all my exotics and fish were Breakdown Adoptions
Franko
2022-07-16 17:59:52 +0000 UTCITS SO HARD!!!! I used to buy feeder rats to keep as pets, but like supporting the conditions they're kept in feels bad too... :(
Little Tunny
2022-07-16 17:59:29 +0000 UTCME TOO…. I always wanna get my kitty some new toys but I end up stopping myself in front of the Guinea pig section like “I would save you all if I had the money”
Cedar
2022-07-16 17:58:28 +0000 UTC
