it's better than them potentially dying in the wild or living in the streets.

In Gaza, cats and dogs(mainly cats) are free. However, it comes at a cost. All the cats are infected with diseases, live off of garbage or food from people who pass by, and are always in danger. There was a cat who fell into a box I kept on my grandmother's balcony- it ended up suffocating and leaving all six of its children alone.

There was a dog who also had an unfortunate ending. Some assholes who lived above me took a random homeless dog, threw it out of their window(which is about 30 feet), and some kids burned it alive. It wasn't fun when my neighbour and I woke up to see a tortured dog end up like that.

At least pets have a guaranteed home with a great life.

They're animals. They're lucky they don't end up on our dinner tables. lol

In all seriousness, pets live much longer and more comfortable lives than do their more wild counterparts, and, with humans' tendency to wope out creatures that inconvenience us, "slavery" is many of these animals only hope to not only survive, but thrive.

Plus, once again, they're stupid animals. It's not the same as keeping a person.

Check your human privilege.

Summarizes every thread made about refugees.

I did, and it included owning pets. Huzzah.

I worked at an animal hospital before, Ive watched these housepets die. Ive adopted pets from rescue shelters. I adopted a Black Lab from Germany that was a former bomb squad dog that would have been euthanized. I recommend as a general precaution, if you cant afford the safety, time and financial support for a child, then you are unfit to raise a pet. While that may seem harsh, it is a guideline. And spay, nueter, vaccinate the little monsters, you monsters

On topic: domestic animals have arleady been err.. domesticated their habitat is with us humans, in the wild they would never survive.
You should look up the difference between taming and domesticating an animal.

When you raise such an animal as a pet, they don't suffer, because they don't know anything else. For them, it's natural to stay with humans, because they adopted/evolved to such a life for several thousand of years or even longer depending on the kind of animal. Holding wild animals can be a bit different because of instincts. But if they are correctly taken care of, it shouldn't be an issue.

My cat growing up was an outdoor cat that was allowed indoors. It roamed as free as it wanted and kept coming back, in its later years it preferred the indoors as got older and slower.

My current cats are both rescue cats that would have died long ago in the wild due to genetic and disease issues and would die within a week if put in the wild now.

Aren't you a big fan of Pokemon? This thread seems weird coming from a pokemon player :P

I don't own any pets cause my goldfish died cause I forgot to feed it. But if I did remember to feed it, it might have lived longer than it would out in the wild. I am pretty sure pets these days are better off. What would fluffy do out in the wild where its eat or be eaten sorta deal. Specially since who knows what bacteria and etc are in the food they would eat.