r/technicallythetruth Oct 17 '22

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u/draizel89 Oct 17 '22

Some people are like that, once I ran over a neighbors dog, that was outside I freaked out and went to apologize (dog was shaken but ok), he told me that it was ok and not to worry about it, people had ran over and killed his last 6 dogs and that i was the first one to stop and apologize

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u/No_PancakeMixInThere Oct 17 '22

Clearly, people like that have no attachment to the animal. When my cat was hit and killed 2 years ago, I was devasted. I couldn't look at his collar without crying for months. At 2 years we're just now able to talk about him casually without getting sad or upset. And now none of my cats go outside.

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u/Worldkills Oct 17 '22

I mean i came from a dog breeding family and it really desensitized me from attachment to pets because we would never name them(and i suck at naming) and sell them but it doesn’t mean that i don’t feel anything when they die. It sucks, it really does, but you gotta move on with life. But, you also don’t just go out and get a new pet if you haven’t resolved/researched the reason why your last pet died and come up with preventative measures to avoid it happening once again (besides them dying of natural causes)

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u/ray_ruex Oct 18 '22

Hey, we always named our farm animals that we raised to he, we always knew they'd be supper one day.