Animal rescue people are severely mentally ill

[Freya]

I love animals. Most people do. But there's something about people that get involved in the "rescue" shit.
My neighbors have horribly trained shepherds and huskies that go nuts whenever they see something. Apparently one of the dogs has a bite history and they "saved it from death row." You can go to any Facebook page for the local shelter/humane society and see endless mentally ill women posting the most insane projecting on these animals you have ever seen. To be clear, I am not hating on dogs/shelters in general, but there it seems to be a rather undiscussed cultural phenomenon people notice but never think to talk about. It is interesting to see very clearly mentally deranged people projecting their issues onto these dogs and its taken seriously by society at large.
I have thought about making a proving grounds thread on the animal rescue people but I don't know if they are really "lolcows" in the traditional sense.

Thoughts?

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[0 0]

That's not an issue with animal rescue people, that's an issue with bad people doing animal rescue.

 

[WE'RE ALL GONNA]

You'd expect this kind of thing when you have a culture that views children as nuisances to a hedonistic/professional lifestyle. All that unbridled maternal energy gets poured into animals they want to save.

I don't know, it's interesting they call their pets "Fur-babies."

 

[Freya]

That's not an issue with animal rescue people, that's an issue with bad people doing animal rescue.

its almost like the "movement" attracts the mentally ill

 

[0 0]

its almost like the "movement" attracts the mentally ill

Perhaps, but I personally do not observe it happening at a higher rate than other forms of altruism.

 

[melty]

I learned from the pitbull thread that animal shelters get up to all sorts of bullshit. A couple of things that come to mind are labeling clear pitbulls as "lab mixes" and calling injured pitbulls "bait dogs". There is an apparent epidemic of rescued "bait dogs", which is interesting, considering it's a myth.

 

[Die Dunkle Maus]

I can only speak from personal experience, yes, a lot of the people involved in animal rescue are out of their fucking minds.

1. Many in the field are vegans, who are bat-shit crazy to begin with.
2. Many people who prefer the company of animals have been abused by people, even more so in an animal shelter where they are rescuing. Most consider the work therapeutic or at least fulfilling.
3. Veterinary is very similar, it's often the same people doing different jobs, say working at vet hospital and volunteering at shelter, etc.
4. Still less crazy people than the restaurant industry, which is frightening and best not to think about too much.

 

[Grub]

I know someone who brought back a rescue dog from Mexico. It was a bully that spent its life in a cage making babies to be used in dog fights. The dog was pregnant when she brought it back with like her 5th litter or something. I actually ended up with one of the puppies. He's pretty awesome. A really sweet chill dog. He doesn't like being by himself though and one time he smashed through one of my windows because a bear came into the yard. He chased the bear away cut himself up though. Not too bad luckily.

The girl I got him from though kept one of the puppies. Who then proceeded to get one of her other dogs, an unrelated bully/pitbull/Collie mix, pregnant.

I haven't seen her for a while but apparently she's pretty fucked up these days though. Last I heard she was now smoking crack and her three dogs live in a trailer alone while she lives with her crackhead roommates and stops by her trailer every few days to feed the dogs. The dog she 'rescued' from Mexico, one of her puppies and the dog he got pregnant.

 

[Freya]

I learned from the pitbull thread that animal shelters get up to all sorts of bullshit. A couple of things that come to mind are labeling clear pitbulls as "lab mixes" and calling injured pitbulls "bait dogs". There is an apparent epidemic of rescued "bait dogs", which is interesting, considering it's a myth.

If you want a laff, search "bait dog" on reddit and look at all the fawning and ridiculousness. This is not just pit bulls however. I think what is fascinating to me is the ecstatic, almost religious element you see in a lot of animal welfare activism now.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I certainly help to fill the water bowls at my job for the stray/feral cats that live in the woods nextdoor like lots of people, but yeah there's a ton of bullshit you step into the moment you get involved with rescue shit

the normal shelters eventually kill even random kittens if they don't get adopted out in time
the no-kills are freakshow hoarders
even basic vet-style work involves large amounts of Kevorkian-ing

I'm not going to say there's good answers, but you have to sign up for bad answers no matter what you do beyond random handouts to local stray varmints

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

I'll gladly kill or run over a pitbull on sight but have no problems with helping other feral domestic pets.

 

[Adrenochrome Dreams]

I wouldn't say they're mentally ill but some of these individuals are not the most intelligent and can't see past their (admirable) empathy to see the ultimate consequences of their actions and campaigning.

Most of their behaviours are based on something sensible that has got twisted.

For example, the "no kill" mentality, even for dogs with bite histories or challenging behaviours.

The sensible: all animals are innocent, their behaviour isn't their fault, they don't deserve to die. Nothing wrong with thinking that. But then it gets twisted: failing to acknowledge that we just don't have the resources to look after severely deranged dogs that have a high risk of harming humans or other animals. It's sad they have to die. But the alternative is to allow shelters to be over-run with imprisoned, unhappy and unadoptable dogs, confined to cages because they can't even be trusted with staff. Or, lie about their history and adopt them out into the community where they may hurt people, and will likely end up being put down anyway.

Killing healthy dogs is terrible, but it's the least worst option in many cases. Some people just can't stomach the idea of a dog getting capital punishment, and they get fixated on it to the expense of the bigger picture.

There is also a bit of optimistic thinking in that you can love the bad behaviours out of traumatised dogs. Sometimes, you just can't. I still don't think this is mental illness because people are taught to think that this is true and that dogs are infinitely fixable with love.

Then there's the fixation on pit bulls and rehabilitating their image.

Shelter people believe the solution to the mass breeding and abandoning of pit bulls and subsequent overwhleming of shelters with them, is just to convince people that pit bulls are lovely family dogs who everybody should adopt. That they are victimised and abused and in extra need of love, and the problem is people just don't want to adopt them due to bigoted prejudices against pit bulls.

In fact, what needs to be stopped is the unscrupulous mass breeding of bloodsport breeds. They don't want to acknowledge this because they recoil at anything that goes against their current PR method of saving unadoptable dogs, which is to convince everyone that they're unloved, unappreciated nanny dogs who just need some TLC.

Overall, not mental illness, but the lies many shelters tell about blatantly dangerous animals is thread-worthy in its own right.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

I see this problem as most of the other modern western problems- the idea is good, but it's being implemented by stupid people, some of whom pretend to care instinctively to be "one of the cool crowd".
You will never see one of these white bleeding hearts going after a legit ghetto nigga who owns a bull because "thats a cool manly dog" or dog-eaters. I mean maybe Im wrong, but I don't hear about it.
I agree that the care for animals is a sign of higher civilization. And the ghetto niggas, as well as rural chinks who cook dogs, are on the lower level of civilization. I don't believe it's a genetic fault of race, but rather uncultured and brutal upbringing in harsh enviroment.

I'll gladly kill or run over a pitbull on sight but have no problems with helping other feral domestic pets.

I see what you mean, but the breeds themselves aren't at fault.
Everyone is also poopoing on rothweilers, but my family had one when I was about 6 yo to about 16 yo. My parents trained and disciplined it thoughout its childhood. As a result I've never seen a dog who would follow owner commands so much to the letter. I also remember how it defended me and my sister once from stray dogs and once from drug addicts (they were approaching for unknown reason as we were playing at our summer house's lawn). It didnt attack or charge or anything, it just looked memacingly at them and slightly growled, that was enough. I will tell you though that this breed has one distinct advantage/disadvantage- it's very independantly minded, because it's a bodyguard. For example despite guarding me and my sister fanatically it didnt pay much attention to OUR commands because to it we were just pups of the alpha male and alpha female of the pack. Yeah, it listened, but you could tell it was doing it with hesitance and in a crisis situation where there would be no alphas to give it command- it might act on its own as it sees the best for the pack.
I don't know bulls as good, but I presume a normal owner knows the strong as weak sides of the breed.
It all comes down to the ancient problem- owners are people with ghetto nigger mindsets.

 

[glass_houses]

It really depends on the individual. I personally have a habit of keeping an eye on my local area for people trying to give their rats away for whatever reason, and I know at least one other person who does the same. I take in roughly one to two does a year, but it varies. Otherwise, I contact the ad posters and refer them to the local dedicated rat rescue. I have been involved with said rescue on the peripherals, on and off for a few years now, and I've been asked to foster for them but so far I've declined for various reasons. Some of the people in the rescue are amazing. Some... aren't. The founder I respect as a highly knowledgeable carer, an organiser, and a community motivator, and indeed I have consulted with her on particular behavioural issues I've had with individual rats, but she's a genderspecial heterosexual 'queer' SJW and I'm pretty certain that any degree of one on one time between us would lead to me trying to physically smack some sense of reality into her.

Generally you've got two types of people doing rescue: those that are heavily into animals because they don't like humans, and those that like animals and are after social contact with other people interested in animals. Generally it's the animal lovers who are most inclined to lose their shit mentally. I follow a lady called Megabattie on yt, who specialises in rescuing bats and raising/rehabilitating them, and she does this job very well. There's a ton of interaction with other people while she's on rescues, but the deeper interactions she shows are either with close family or other bat people. 'Normal' friendships and relationships with non bat people just aren't a thing for her. A lot of my fellow autists generally get involved with animal rescue because it's just easier for them to be with animals than other humans. You also come across a lot of individuals who've been badly abused and just don't trust other humans anymore.

There are a lot of wonderful people involved in animal rescue and I've met them, but it's something that does attract the antisocial, the unhinged, and delusional narcs who like to envisage themselves as 'saviours'. I don't think there's many people in the Western world who haven't met at least one foul smelling cat hoarder.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Yes

 

[melty]

This post made me think of this thread

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnEvB6Ljm_H/

 

[MadStan]

Don’t like people that rescue animals?

Fuck you.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

As far as overlapping with veterinary services, I’ve never noticed this sort of behavior with vet clinics that deal with livestock. But then, they aren’t usually vegans.

 

[ye's Official KF Burner]

Women who project onto animals are top tier crazy, but a vast majority of people in rescue work are pretty chill. The ones who parade their freak shows all over social media are attention whores. If you can weed out the ones who are attention whores and BPD thots you'll be fine.

Here are a few I like:
Best Friends Animal Society
All Seated in a Barn
Tinykittens
Old Friends
Retired Racehorse Program/New Vocations
Horses Plus Humane Society

 

[Android raptor]

I indeed am mentally ill