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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  YES! I love animals and I cannot be more than a casual acquaintance with someone if they do not respect animals as well. It's different if it's just ignorance, such as MIL who is old school and doesn't really understand puppymills and things like that. But someone such as your co worker who says he thinks dogs are disgusting, I could not be friends or even respect someone like that very much.
And if someone cares for animals very much, they get extra brownie points in my book. |
There is a deep psychological reason why people that are deliberately cruel or disrespectful to animals, usually have some deep seated aversion that can "leak" over into the way they feel and relate to other humans. We have someone not only killing dogs in Houston, but doing so horrifically....mutilating the dog before killing it. There are a battery of psychologists, and profilers, working with the police, trying to catch this person, because in their words, this behavior is likely to escalate and this person is quite capable of directing this kind of behavior on to children or other innocents or vulnerable human victims. Does this type of attitude color what I think of this person.....you bet! Do I harbour resentment for my cousin, who was attacked by a rabid dog when she was 5 years old, and HATES dogs and is terrified of them?.....No, I understand where her fear and hatred comes from....and in spite of her fear/hatred of dogs, she would NEVER deliberately hurt one....