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I also feel very uneasy, when I see parents doing the same thing to their children, due to my history.

All my life I've been told I should be a vet because I love animals so much. I always say that I wouldn't be able to deal with the sick animals and the response is always "but you'd be helping them". No, not necessarily. There would be ones I can't help, and I imagine there would be some who could easily be helped but will instead be euthanized because their owners can't (or won't) pay for the treatments. I simply could not deal with that.

I've only been to my local humane society once in my life, a few years ago, and I was so upset by seeing all the animals in cages looking so sad. It was heartbreaking knowing there was nothing I could do for them. I think I made the people I was with uncomfortable, because I was crying really hard.

Yes!! I don't anthropomorphize much, but I love animals. I got a dog when I was depressed a few years ago, and I still have her, and I love her more than any thing and most people in the world. She is my beautiful, sweet baby girl and I love her like a child. So, I realized, if I am willing to take an animal, this dog, and sleep in a bed with her, feed her off my plate, hug and kiss her, how is that different from any other animal?

One time when I was VERY anxious and OCD, I ended up kicking a cat. Actually I'm not sure I even kicked it, but I swung my foot at least. This was when I was about 14, I'm 20 now. I've been through a lot of violent rages, as a kid I even bit my principal and stabbed a kid with a pencil, but I feel worst about what I might have done to that poor kitty. I really didn't mean to.