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   Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Aug-2025 17:24:09 JST Mr Penguin

   I got a new found respect for the danish. Apparently they have no qualms about feeding their pets to predators. A zoo asked for donations and apparently it's not a problem, but revealed a 'culture issue' in at least the United States. There was such an insane reaction the Zoo had to mute its social media page. LOL. I am definitely on the side of 'it's how the world goes round' and this comes off to me as this delusional fantasy land so many people live in today. I get it is a pet... but come on. If only people were this upset about like actual people being murdered and caged by their governments.

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     Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 14:23:34 JST Mr Penguin

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     Ha, yea, I can kinda see where they are going with that one. However pets suck. They are wayyy too much work and zero real reward. I was once gifted a guinea pig when I was about 11 and all I thought when I saw it was "really?". I had never once in my life hinted that I wanted a pet. My younger brother on the other hand had wanted a dog. Glad my parents never got a dog, but at least if they had gifted him a guinea pig he'd at least initially had been excited about it until he realized how much work one was. I comparatively had to grin my teeth and pretend like I was happy while thinking about the next 7 years of hell (they live about 7 years, and while you keep em in a cage ya kinda got to feed and clean the cage at least once in a while). And yea they kinda are hard to kill. I did the absolute bare minimum in terms of feeding and cleaning. They won't eat them selves to death like gold fish will, which meant I shoved as many pellets in the bowl so I didn't need feed it often.

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 14:23:36 JST fu

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     @mr_penguin I've had that argument with folks before and it usually gets a response like "have you met people, dogs are clearly better"