nonegenderwithleftbees:

lucifersass:

xstuffieprincessx:

greekisnotonfire:

madeinchernobyl:

I’m adding to this because y’all gonna learn some shit about housing your pets.

Someone make more I love this new meme.

Ok but consider this; I adopted my rabbit from an abusive owner that would’ve eaten him at a flea market, and for the first two years of his life I only had a small cage for him (about the size of the first photo the guinea pig is in). He was fine and happy and about a year ago I was able to get him a really huge cage where he could run all he wanted.
“If you can’t afford an animal don’t get it”
He never suffered, he was happy, he just didn’t live in massive luxury. Not everybody can afford Pet Mansions, but we can still give them decent lifestyles and that’s okay 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Give me money and space to get a fancy ass cage for my hamster and then we’ll talk
My hamsters’ cages weren’t huge but they lived good lives.

These aren’t fucking pet mansions. These are bare minimum requirements.

And how others have said, the ‘good’ bird cage the other person chose to put on my post is still not big enough for those bird species.

Stop fuckin’ anthropomorphizing your pets, placing your feelings upon them that they were happy and fine, and either ask for money (which I ended up doing, for my betta fish, one is now in a 20 gallon long because of $100 donated by friends and strangers) or find somewhere to fuckin’ rehome them.

God the fact that y’all think any of those cages and tanks are FINE is absolutely fuckin’ sickening. And I REALLY fuckin’ have the urge to block all of y’all from my fucking post so I don’t have to see y’all moaning and complaining about being poor being a good reason to abuse an animal. 

Cause newsflash, I’m poor, I asked for money for my pets and got it, the very fucking same thing you are sarcastically adding to my god damn post.

Like @lucifersass has said. The above are the bare requirements for those pets. Those cages / tanks are all way to small for any of those pets, and barely have any toys / bedding / ect in them. 

As a animal scientist I could rant over each single one of these animals in great detail about why those set ups are so horrible. 

But since I’ve had pet rats for over 2 years I’ll focus on them, as an example of why the first above set up for the singular rat, by all grounds should be classified as animal cruelty. 

• First of all the size of the cage: rats require at least two cubic feet per rat. Small cages allow for ammonia from waste to build up, as well as increase risks of obesity, respiratory infections as well as causing rats (especially in intact males) to fight. 
• The height of the cage: the height is way to low. The rat barely has enough room to stand / sit upright. Rats need room to climb. They like to be up high, off the ground. This tank gives that rat no opinion to climb 
• Little to no ventilation:  glass aquariums or plastic cages (such as above) are not suitable. They don’t allow dust and ammonia to escape, keeping it trapped in the “cage” which is horrible for a rat’s sensitive respiratory system.
• The substrate: wood / pine shavings are bad for the same issues above. They contain dust and wood particles which will make your rat sick, as well as doing a horrible job of absorbing your rat’s waste
•  Lack of bed / toys: there is only one fucking box in that tank. Only ONE. Rats need hammocks, platforms on multiple levels (that are covered if they are wire, otherwise it’ll case bumblefoot (ulcerative pododermatitis). As well as toys to chew on, in order to wear down their teeth, as they are constantly growing. If they have nothing to chew on, the teeth can over grow making it impossible for the rat to eat or drink 
• number of rats: THIS IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES about that set up. YOU CANNOT HAVE ONE RAT BY ITSELF (obviously there are exceptions but as a rule of thumb). You need at least two rats, though a group is better, because rats are extremely social animals. And no it doesn’t matter if you’re “home all the time!” or will be able to “play with it all the time / daily!” Rats. Are. Social. Animals. 

If you keep your rat/s or any of the other animals as shown in the first photo. You are abusing an animal. It is animal cruelty. Full stop. If you cannot provide the bear minimal needs for a pet, you should not have that pet.