Do you feel very distressed when you see

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CockneyRebel
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27 May 2010, 2:06 am

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


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27 May 2010, 3:40 am

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Absolutely. And that's the reason why I don't think I'd ever be able to be a vet. My dad says I should do it because I love animals so much. But having an animal in pain brought in and me having to operate or even euthanize it is too much for me to handle.

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. :oops:


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27 May 2010, 11:33 am

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?



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27 May 2010, 12:25 pm

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. :(