OneAcreFarm
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http://www.happytailzfarm.com/story_of_elmer.htm
This relates to goats, but I can see it being applicable to us as well.
This relates to goats, but I can see it being applicable to us as well.
MaggieJ":etkgx297 said:I know those members who sell pet rabbits do everything they can to ensure their rabbits go to responsible people who will care for them well, but I've never been able to bring myself to sell rabbits for pets for exactly these reasons. Very sad how so many animals end up unwanted, neglected or abandoned. I've never understood how people can be so callous.
ladysown":3mphxk2y said:Thing is.. people pull out stories like this which prevents the good first time buyers from getting a new animal as well.
So just because someone(s) are twit(s) shouldn't stop pet sales from occurring.
I can understand folks not wanting to kill their sweet little something and wanting to give it a chance.
That goat Elmer could just has easily landed up in an excellent forever home, he just had the misfortune of not ending where his people had hoped he would.
So the question is: should you or I give people a chance OR should we always assume the worst of them? I choose to assume the best, and offer the worst the opportunity to return said animal to me if it becomes an issue for them. No questions asked.
<br /><br />__________ Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:24 pm __________<br /><br />eco2pia":9dwckxo5 said:I have to wonder how true it was too, it was awfully dramatic. One rarely gets to follow an individual animal thru it's life like that.
However, as a defense of butchering I don't think it was a PETA story.
I believe things like this do happen though, and have seen it myself. I think the real caution is not to pet sellers, but to uninformed buyers--too bad that the fact that they are uninformed means they wont read it!! :roll: I still read it as more of a defense of the decision to butcher--I face a lot of family/friends in denial about how meat gets in those styrofoam packages.
Devon's Mom Lauren":9dwckxo5 said:I agree with ladysown... the intent is to scare and make you feel bad. The goat kids are a byproduct of the goat milk industry, in order to GET MILK one must breed to freshen the goat! Its not like they CHOSE the sex of the kids, and they had every right to sell it at the FARM market! It is entirely the fault of the buyers; the first ones didn't neuter him either and obviously had NO idea about buck goats, the second one supposedly a farmer who didn't know anything about animal husbandry??!! also was to blame. The story teller and I wonder how really "true" the story is could have intervened at the beginning as well but they offered up some sort of excuses about that!Well we can all offer some excuse or another... it just seems if you're telling the story its ok to make excuses and if you are the story's character its not ok. Just the fact that she didn't try to bring the buck back to good health and instead shot it sounds suspiciously like PETA, the ones who don't want any domesticated animals for whatever reason at all? I just question the right of someone to tell others how to run their lives....
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