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Originally Posted by Wolfpack
And yet I'm sure you'd have no conscience when it comes to destroying wildlife habitats and eating KFC knowing (knowing, I tell you!) that PETA is screaming bloody murder about how the chickens are treated before death. Right? Hypocrite.  |
Yes, I know you're joking (and not a half-bad wisecrack IMO), but I'll kinda give a serious comment anyway: I believe there's a "contract" that's implied when you have a pet. I believe abandoning them violates that contract, which basically is that you accept responsibility for their care & well-being regardless of cost.
My wife actually made this comment earlier, but I'm pretty much in total agreement: if the choice was live & leave them or stay with them & die, then I'm dead. I couldn't, and moreso wouldn't choose to, live with knowing what I had done. Only the responsibility to our son & I imagine to our parents/grandparents outweighs the responsibility we feel toward the pets.