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i hate the trend of giving people surprise animals on holidays and birthdays. puppies, kittens, birds, rabbits, every time i see a "heart warming video" of a person totally unprepared to be housing a pet, receiving a pet, i feel uncomfortable for everyone involved

Yeah it's REALLY fucked up imo. A pet is a member of the family-it's like giving someone a surprise pregnancy for the holiday.

Easter alone results in tons of bunnies being abandoned.

ayrt

yea. bad for the pet AND bad for the family, because almost nobody thinks about how much that dog or cat or bunny is going to cost in terms of food, toys, vet bills, time...

As someone whose family this has happened to, I know exactly what you mean. Like, I can understand it if the person giving the gift is ready to take responsibility of the pet if it ends up unwanted, or if the pet was something the person has wanted/been preparing for for some time, but a lot of the time it's just picking up an animal and hoping the receiver likes it and is capable of caring for it properly. What if they can't actually afford to care for it or something?

ayrt

i said the exact same thing above. lol

did it work out in the end for your family?

The first time it happened, unfortunately not :( We got a couple of rabbits, but our area regularly gets visited by dangerous animals since my family lives in the mountains, near a jungle, and the rabbits escaped one night and got killed.

The second time we got hamsters and tried caring for them for a while, but my mum eventually came to the conclusion that we couldn't take care of them and asked the nearest pet shop if they could take them, and fortunately they said yes. I guess that worked out relatively better than the rabbits.

what the fuck

who goes "happy birthday" and hands people a couple of hamsters god

I was especially annoyed when it happened because my brother was still really young at the time and it was hard making sure he didn't badly disturb them. At least they lived, and my sister (who was the one the hamsters were gifted to) learned a valuable lesson in the expenditure involved in caring for a pet.

Why didn't you take the rabbits to a shelter as soon as you got them? I hope you all realize you're as much to blame for their deaths as whoever gave them to you. The hamsters too, because you took them to a pet shop instead of a shelter, and pet shops are awful. They probably died there.

Why didn't you take the rabbits to a shelter as soon as you got them? I hope you all realize you're as much to blame for their deaths as whoever gave them to you.

They are animals who broke out by accident and thus were vulnerable to the natural dangers of the world. That's not anyone's "fault", it's how nature works. If someone's dog broke out of their house and got hit by a car, would you say that's their fault to0? That's ridiculous. Playing the blame game and laying guilt on someone who lost a family member is a spectacularly shitty thing to do. Accidents happen.

because you took them to a pet shop instead of a shelter

Yeah, because there are totally shelters that take rabbits and hamsters everywhere! I think there's a whopping total of one in my state. A lot of states have none. Pet shops don't exist to torture and murder animals. They have every reason to keep the animals alive. The hamsters probably found good new homes--or died in the pet shop of old age, given that hamsters don't live that long.

Edited 2015-12-26 06:20 (UTC)

Agreed. Even when the one recieving the animal has the means, it's just a very bad idea. An old acquaintance from school has a farm an he was gifted a pair of goats. That meant he had to get fencing specifically for them as they are prone to escaping. I think he managez to get someone else to take them in.

Not surprising, considering a pet is one of the worst gifts ever to give to another human being (unless of course, you know for sure which type of pet they want and that they are prepared to take care of it, but I am sure this is rare when it comes to gifting). Animals are wonderful. They also deserve to be wanted and cared for, and not pushed onto some unsuspecting individual.

I think that would only work if you know the person is wanting to get a pet and you get in and get one for them before they are able to.

But I also think it could be a problem if the receiver is in a situation where they are not able to support a pet, like my situation where I wish I could have a cat (and could afford to keep one just fine) but I am not allowed to have one where I live (body corporate rules for the complex).

So giving a pet as a gift? To do it right, I think a lot of research would need to be done first.

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