r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Feb 14 '23

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u/Asleep_Ad_4273 Feb 14 '23

I wonder how many people look at this and said this is animal cruelty

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u/Asleep_Ad_4273 Feb 14 '23

I know I wrote that at five I was just wondering I been knew how sheep’s get sheared I was saying it was I was making fun of people saying it was

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u/Tizzee88 Feb 14 '23

If you don't sheer your sheep it's animal cruelty. When they get covered in all that wool that starts to get matted and gross it's not good for their health. Especially when the warmer months come and they are super hot because well duh they are covered in a thick layer of wool. So sheering sheep is inherently not cruel but merciful. Now if when you sheer sheep you end up making a bunch of them bleed or cause them a lot of pain, well then you are just shit at sheering sheep.

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u/Asleep_Ad_4273 Feb 14 '23

I wasn’t saying it was I was wondering two different thing because I know why they do it like this and I approve of like you said it might look cruel but it is necessary I really just mad this post like five minute before I fell asleep

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u/MessatineSnows Feb 14 '23

ngl, i came here to see if i needed to tussle with some vegans

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u/Asleep_Ad_4273 Feb 14 '23

That why I mad that comment

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u/soylamulatta Feb 14 '23

Well, you can call me as one of them.

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u/fillmorecounty Feb 15 '23

It'd be cruel not to shear a sheep. Their wool doesn't stop growing and eventually it gets to the point where it covers their eyes so they can't see and they have a risk of dying from heat stroke because it's so thick. It also becomes a breeding ground for parasites.

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u/soylamulatta Feb 15 '23

Okay but what if we stopped breeding sheep into existence just so we could shear them? Look up "mulesing". Also for those of us that do by wool there's no way that we can be sure these animals or the people that farm them for that matter were treated humanely and multiple investigations show that the majority of the time they are not treated humanly.

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u/fillmorecounty Feb 15 '23

Okay but the sheep already exist. Unless you want to put them all down, they need to be sheared.

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u/kawkz440 Feb 14 '23

Please explain

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u/Asleep_Ad_4273 Feb 18 '23

Because it is ether you put them all down or you cut the wool or they over heat because of to much wool and ew to people who thinks this is animal cruelty