You had no choice but to put the kitten to sleep because it would scratch and bite? They have people that can train/work with cats and kittens.....

omg, I have two cats, one is super antisocial and the other is just so hyper and she loves to play. and I absolutely hate it when my friends and or family come over, and they start trying to play with my antisocial cat that I TOLD THEM HATES PEOPLE and she hisses at them, then they come to my crying that shes mean to them, and I am just like I TOLD YOU NOT TO TRY AND PLAY WITH HER. or when they tr to play with my hyper cat and they starting playing with her and she starts play biting, and they come up to me and say that she is an aggressive cat and that we shouldn't keep her in the house, and I have to explain that no, she is just a hyperactive 1 year old cat, WHAT'D YOU EXPECT!!!!!!!

UGH!!!!!!!!!!

I have lots of pets....so here is just one for now.
I have this gelding (neutered boy horse) who is about six years old when this happened. I should mention he is ia POA Arib mix, this means that he is super hyper!! He loves to run and play around. But he is also realy well behaved and sweet when you get close to him. So there was this girl who was new to the stable. Her mom purchased a fat sweet little pony for her to learn to ride and it was stabled at our farm. Yeah no problem kiddos come all the time and stuff to have riding lessons so the horses are all vary well mannered. I had left Ike(my horse) at some crosstyes in the stable aisle so I could go get my tack (saddle, blanket, bridal) and out of no were i hear thus shrill scream! I go running out and this girl is on the floor crying a few feet from Ike. Her mom rushes out and demands to know what happened. The girl said that my horse is crazzy wild and reared up and tried to bite and kick at her. I tell the mom this is impossible as Iks ties are not long enough for him to rear up. And Ike is a vary nice gentle animal. Also I was just in the closet so I would of heard is he reared and landed down. Mom said I was lying and obiously my horse was wild and should be put down. At this point Ike takes one step forward and gives the woman a big lick across her face!! I laugh so hard and say 'Yeah he is vicious!!' I look at the girl 'Dont ever lie to me or others, if anything happened its your fault because Ike is super nice and would not strike out agressivly unless you realy agitated him. ' they go to the office and file a complaint to my dad. My dad gets the girl to confess that she pulled realy hard on his forlock (his 'bangs') and that he nudged her away and she tripped over her own feet and fell down.

My brother pulls my cat's ears back so her face looks weird. It drives me nuts. Also, I am a Korean-adoptee in America, so when I say I have a cat and a dog, they (bullies and such) ask if I'm fattening them up to eat them.

I first got my cat last summer when he was just a little kitten so we locked him in the bathroom so he could get used to the house/have a safe space that was just for him (we mostly kept him there since it was easiest to clean and didn't have much stuff to damage, also, our dog avoided that room like his life was in danger)

So, it was a few weeks after we first got him, and I had a few friends over, and unfortunately, one of them had a very obnoxious younger sibling, who's always screeching and being violent, so naturally, I locked me and my friends in the room while we played with the kitten. After a while, we left,y'know, since it was a bathroom and a kitten could only entertain for so long.

I stressed to my brother 'don't let your friends bully the kitten' but he's an idiot so of course he does. I come back upstairs to find the kitten who was hiding under the sink (There's a sink/cabinet he liked hiding under, especially when new people were there) and his friend was reaching under there, trying to forcibly drag the baby out, the poor thing was practically screaming (As well as an 9-week kitten could) he was so scared!

I shoved them both out and yelled at my brother for letting his friend do that.
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Now, this isn't so much of something of my friend did, but something she said. Before I had my kitten Mell, I had a cat named Bella, who was kind of mean, but I still loved her. She recently had gone missing, and since there were hawks in the area, we assumed she had been eaten (She hasn't come back, my inner foruth-grader likes to believe she left to join the warrior cats in the woods)

I was devastated, naturally, and I was hanging out with my one friend, whom I don't talk to anymore because she was like this a LOT. I expressed to her how upset I was about my missing kitty, and that she still hasn't come home after such a long time. and she just tells me that she hates cats because they kill hundreds of birds each year. At that point, I was almost crying, and I tell her she was actually killed by a bird to which she replies something along the lines of "Good, she probably deserved it, cats are horrible and deserve to die"




This is more of a personal thing, but I just don't like when people pet animals with their feet, no idea why, I just don't like it.

That's terrible! My uncle is Chinese, so people say stuff like that all the time, feel free to use his comeback of "We don't actually eat cats and dogs, we just cook them and feed them to the white people"

I am beyond angry right now and I remembered this thread.
My dad just tried to give my brother permission... to shoot my cat with his nerf guns.
Naturally, I flipped out. My cat is already pretty timid and she doesn't like my brother because he's so loud and rude to her. You know what happens to cats that are treated like that? They try to get out. They get aggressive. They start to bite and scratch and hiss, and we have little kids coming through our house all the time who love fluffy kitties. I love my cat more than anything in the whole wide world, so if they thought they would get away with it than they're flat out insane. Yes, he only said it because she was chewing on a plant. That does not give him jurisdiction to cause my cat harm or allow other people to cause her harm. She's my cat, so here's a thought: let me be in charge of disciplining her. She's a small cat, and a nerf dart can leave bruises and make her even more afraid of people than she already is. If I see my brother try it, maybe I'll turn the squirt bottle on him.

My dude, I raise chickens and so many people joke that I'm only raising them to turn them into a fried chicken bucket. I hate bird meat these fellas just gotta make so many out of pocket comments. Racism is a wild concept XD

Alrighty, my number one pet peeve (no pun intended) is when people beat on you for the way you raise your animals. If it deviates just slightly from they're way or the "textbook," they go bat crazy. "You're not supposed to hold your chicken that way!" Brenda, you old coot, she's a timid runt who only calms down this way. "You carry chickens by their feet and upside-down? Inhumane!" This is literally a way chickens are carried at shows and other places to keep them from freaking out and thrashing, hurting themselves and others. My rooster does not want broken wings, and I do not desire to have more claw scars. "You clip you call ducks' wings? That's unfair to them." This keeps them from flying off and becoming injured or attacked by a predator in a place I can't get to them. They're bright white. Not able to hide very well. They have a secure, fenced-in area and a safe hideaway home.

Also animal stereotypes. "Roosters are mean." Some are, yes, but don't judge a book by its cover. Kim Jong Roo (that's his name, yes) is actually a baby after bath time when he's all snuggled in his towel. Sleeps in your arms like he doesn't care.

Now, I don't have dogs, but what really bothers me? People who kill and abuse pitfalls just because they're "bully breeds." Yes, they have been specifically bred for that purpose, but that does not mean they're all raised to fight and kill. If you have a dog, get one that YOU are stronger than and that YOU can control.

Now, onto reptiles (I'm so PRESSED right now, I didn't even know how much I disliked humans):

I have a sweet (insane) crested gecko that people call gross just because he has no eyelids and is presumed to be "slimey." His skin is soft, you daft magpies.

People who judge your snakes because they have never bothered to research anything? Laughable. Snakes are the most villainized animal. From the Bible to kid's movies and popular media, they are portrayed as cold, evil, venomous, and unfeeling. First of all, snakes don't know right from wrong. Second of all, snakes will not attempt to eat you; you're too large anyway. Third, snakes do not intentionally try to bite you or envenomate you. You're MASSIVE and if you threaten their area, they will flee or attempt to defend themselves. If you came at me with a big boot, I'd bite you too (and there is no such thing as a poisonous rattler, Brenda, they're venomous).

I personally keep four ball pythons (Solange, Chubs, Octavian, and Shirogane). When people hear me say I have four and intend on breeding, they freak out. Many people assume that constrictors will strangle them to death. As a safety precaution in the first place, many larger constrictors (i.e. reticulated and anacondas) are always handled by more than one person. While they do posses the strength to potentially kill a human and should be respected, they do not see people as food (excluding mistaken food scents, if a person has been brushing up against their food sources, like goats and such all day). I let my pythons hang out on my neck, and yes, they do coil and squeeze. They're simply securing their area as not to fall, not to kill me.

As with any animal, snakes can bite. I've been bitten twice (my mistake, I didn't wash the rat scent from my hands ahead of feeding time). From a ball python and much smaller colubrids, this barely hurts. Ball pythons have small teeth that hurt less than a kitten's nip or scratch.

Many people say snakes are "mean." I never like to say this- I prefer defensive. Ball pythons are rare strikers, as many prefer to ball up (hence the name) instead of biting. AND YET, idiots will still label them as vicious. My Octavian is such an idiot he got stuck in a paper towel roll. Yes, very vicious.

In short, stop discriminating and hating on snakes just because they're snakes.


Now to add one positive thing: My favorite thing in the world is when a young child is actually gentle, considerate, and attentive when holding or petting an animal. I will die for these kids.

I have a corn snake in the house. I used to have three, so they were named after the three stoogies (I butchered the spelling, maybe). So the one living snake left is named Moe. But, whenever I mention I have a snake, even though he is in a "cage" (a glass tank with a screen top, so the light and heat get to him better.) they go crazy.

"OMG, you have a snake!" Yes, yes I do.

"Doesn't the snake try to kill you?" HA! The closest he came to wanting to "kill" me is when my brother tried to get the snake into a feeding cage, while he (snake) was in his tank. That angred him, to the point he tried to bite my brother. So, yeah, brother's fault and Moe doesn't want to kill me. (He was supposed pick up the snake, and then put him into a feeding cage.)

"Isn't he/it poisonous?" If they saw him, I could see why they would ask this. But if I tell them he isn't poisonous when I talk about him, why ask again? Especially if I know you didn't forget the last conversation.

"Doesn't he try and bite you?" Only if he's hungry (near his feeding) or he's agitated. I've been bitten once, it drew blood. My brother got bit once, it didn't even draw blood.

"Why are you holding it?" Um, because he's my pet. Therefore, I hold him with the same amount of care as my cat.

"Uh, won't he/it escape the cage and bite you in your sleep?" There is a lock on his cage. And even if he somehow escaped, he is downstairs. It is colder than his cage, and he would probably would go some where warmer. But, his caged is LOCKED! It is unlikely he will escape a locked cage. Plus, he couldn't break the screen top. He doesn't even like the top!

I can't believe the questions people ask about my snake. The silliness!

And that's only the snake. Not my brother's lizard, or my anti-social cat that meows at my bedroom door while I'm on my computer. Just the snake.

And I might add more to this if my brother picks up my cat three times tomorrow, and/or I get angry enough.