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Worried about my roommates pets

Reddit Animals

We have a few pets living with us but I'm concerned about my roommates pets and I'm worried if they're being neglected and mistreated. So one of the roommates cleans the shared cat litter box about once every week or whenever he decides to. She also just enjoys my room more since I have a very large cat tower.

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Brooklyn Woman Assaults Two ASPCA Agents

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Responding to an anonymous tip about a neglected cat, the Humane Law Enforcement agents arrived at Stewart’s residence to find a seven-week-old, one-pound orange tabby with his whiskers cut off and a serious injury to his right front paw. “As It was determined that Stewart had failed to get medical attention for her cat.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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sexual abuse, and animal fighting as well as neglect (such as hoarding). Shon Rahrig : While living in Ohio in 1999, Rahrig allegedly adopted several cats and a puppy from local shelters and tortured them sadistically. Time and again, she has been caught housing dozens of sick, neglected animals in squalid conditions.

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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

Animal Person

The average person doesn't fund programs that cost $8,000 per cat. And you wouldn't fund a program that was very expensive per unit (human or nonhuman animal) yet you often don't think about that when you're dealing with an individual. Helping individuals, financially-speaking, isn't a great use of money.

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Is fostering the answer? We think it is.

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But perhaps their human passed away, or maybe they fell on hard times and just couldn’t afford pet care any longer. Sure, there are some shelter pets who sadly have never felt love, or the affection of a human before. Some were abused or neglected. If a cat is playing, it’s not meowing! There is less guessing.

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Jonathan Bennett on Revisable Morality

Animal Ethics

I imagine that we agree in our rejection of slavery, eternal damnation, genocide, and uncritical patriotic self-abnegation; so we shall agree that Huck Finn , Jonathan Edwards , Heinrich Himmler , and the poet Horace would all have done well to bring certain of their principles under severe pressure from ordinary human sympathies.

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