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Ive been blindsided with an eviction, and right now the rental market in my affordability range (Australian btw) is very hostile to pets.

Im stuck with the reality of choosing between my cat or having a place to live. But she'll run away anyway if I end up homeless and have to live out of my car.

I really dont want to send her to a shelter. But what else do I do when I have no friends and espsecially no family to care for her instead?

And shaming them will do nothing to solve the stated problems.

Shaming people does nothing but stroke the ego of the one doing the shaming so they can feel morally superior to the one being shamed.

I had to take some birds to a rescue years ago. I’m incredibly thnkful that lady was doing what she was doing.

I did not choose to adopt/purchase them. My mother did, then did nothing with them for years, then she died and I ended up with a pair of 7-ish-year-old unhandleable conures. Screamy birds. I get headaches daily, migraines weekly.

I cared for them for several years, got them sort of handleable, but I couldn’t deal with them for another 25 years.

That isn’t unique, people inherit animals all the time that they didn’t plan for, or their life situation changes drastically. Be careful with that shaming. People who don’t deserve it will catch strays (bullets, not pets)

I have worked for a rescue charity and though you want to shame them, it's really not a good idea as they were usually trying to do the best for their animal under difficult circumstances. Though sometimes animals would be_returned_ to us after being adopted for dumb reasons so I think those people did deserve some shame but the ones just trying navigate a bad hand, I didn't feel too bad about. Life can be tough and unpredictable.

The ones who would just tie their dogs to the gate and drive off though, those people deserve plenty of shame.

I'm a wildlife rescue volunteer and we have to bite our tongues a lot. Many injuries are due to loose pets or people's crap they leave out that ensnares/traps/smacks wildlife. We also get people that try to treat animals they don't understand the needs of and will make them sicker or unsaveable when they could have brought them directly to us to save them.

We can't scold people no matter how accidentally or purposefully they hurt wildlife because then people will either leave them outside to die a prolonged death or keep them themselves and they will die or have terrible health problems and live miserable lives. We only let people trained to properly receive patients talk to the people that come in.

We also get some plain insane people that will be kinda scary to the almost exclusively female staff, and we are fairly secluded.

Jesus this is such an oversimplification and also just fucking bullshit.

We had to surrender my dog for behavior issues. But if anyone say we didnt try everything in our power, id fight you over it.

We spent thousands of dollars on personal training, we had our trainer reach out to other trainers, we had vet appointment after vet appointment. We tried working half days so we could be home with him, we tried anxiety medicine, we tried relaxation diffusors, and probably more things i cant even think of. We tried for more than 2 years with that dog, but the stress and anxienty my family felt almost ended my marriage.

We tried to rehome him to friends, we tried to rehome him on social media thru friends. Ultimately we had to surrender him. He needed to be an outside dog and we simply couldnt accommodate that.

I cried like a baby when i surrendered him, and im a 40 year old man.

Get fucked.

Since editing crashes my client after the last update:

I know I'm giving a very serious reply to what was probably a joke comment, but I have a lot of feelings on this topic and needed an excuse to get them out lol.

You know, absolutely everything you wrote is spot on, zeroed right on the mark correct, as far as I'm concerned. Absolutely explains "why they'd want to shame them". Truly, you translated human nature into the comment very well.

But...human nature is...well.

All that you wrote is what someone who is looking to make someone face and own their decisions and the consequences of their actions should do. But the reason why the poster you commented on is correct, is because the shopkeeper in the comic, by their own signage, isn't someone who is looking to merely chastise to engender better behavior.

The other half, is actually dealing with those consequences. As you noted, the person who chose poorly has invited their consequences upon another living being, whether through willful action or unfortunate circumstance, doesn't matter.

The person will need to learn, but the living being who is not the person, is actively enduring those consequences. The reason why they let you drop off babies at fire fighter stations without making you have to go in and sign a form, is because unrestricted absolution leads to more babies being saved.

When a person has an out, out of a problematic situation that they can utilize without furthering worsening their situation, they will take it. Note that I said without worsening, the sting of the original problem always remains as hook enough for self improvement. A person will have to eventually step up to fix themselves or they should be stopped, and discouraged, yes.

But if someone else is choosing to instead, rescue or protect or rehabilitate the collateral victims of the consequences of another's actions, the most effective course is to focus solely on that which they seek to save, as the person who did the damage is not their responsibility and engaging poorly there, would result in less saving of that which they would protect.

I think the analogy of animal and plant is exactly what the comic was evoking. I think the problem with shaming is that people may decide to not bring their animal here because they don’t want to be shamed, which ends up being worse for the animal. So if the store truly cares about the well being of the animal (or plant), they shouldn’t shame so it encourages people to do the right thing.