https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:25:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1624956 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 22:28:21 +0000 RoseandJoan 1624956@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just look at this dog trying to help the fish <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/MindBlowing/status/694295697252724736/video/1" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/Min.....36/video/1</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1623645 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 05:49:54 +0000 Kari 1623645@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That bothers me immensely too. Of course I'm upset by violence towards people, but to those that are and should be in our care-animals, people who are infirm or ill, children-I find it especially upsetting. </p> <p>Here's the video (I think, or something similar) that Sarah mentioned. </p> <p><a href="http://youtu.be/ekmMD8oYtJ0" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/ekmMD8oYtJ0</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1619984 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 05:49:04 +0000 catgirl 1619984@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I need to see more of that, Sarah!&nbsp; It sounds heartening. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1619898 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:01:14 +0000 SarahTheWhite 1619898@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just saw something on Facebook that is the positive to this negative. It was a video of a whole pod of dolphins getting stranded on a beach, and all of these people waded into the water and one by one pulled each dolphin out into deeper water. As the video progressed more people jumped in until there were nearly as many people as dolphins, and not one was left out of the water. It was really sweet and made me think of you and wish that you had seen this video instead... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618725 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:06:04 +0000 Eliza 1618725@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><i></i>Horrifying and I didn't click through either. Just too cruel and oblivious. I have a built in revulsion at those who mistreat the vulnerable, whether human or animal, and hope that most people share it. If you are more focussed on your photo op than a creature's existence, I don't want to know you. </p> <p>Unfortunately, my state now has a high number of children who died at the hands of others (frequently those entrusted to care for them). Abusing elders, kids, people who are frail or different is just another side of the same coin.&nbsp;</p> <p>Tragic. You are not alone, Una.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618470 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 23:31:56 +0000 Janet 1618470@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I saw the headline and couldn't even bear to click through to read it. I can't even fathom what on earth people are thinking sometimes. Mob mentality is a scary thing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618309 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:35:04 +0000 catgirl 1618309@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Colette, all our animals are and always will be rescues (with the exception of the gecko) for that reason.&nbsp; Kona was abandoned, our older cat was a stray, and the kittens were feral harbor kittens! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618303 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:25:34 +0000 Aziraphale 1618303@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I saw this too. It made me sick. It reminded me that while, individually, people tend to be reasonable, sensible and kind, en masse we are too often stupid and cruel.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618295 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:11:11 +0000 Colette 1618295@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I share your sorrow. The inhumanity makes me so sad it keeps me up at night so I've had to take a hiatus from reading and watching the news. I just don't understand people and how they can be so cruel.</p> <p>I do a bit of volunteer work for an animal rescue and the stories of the inhumane treatment of domesticated animals is sickening and each one lives with me for days. My solace is that the animals lucky enough to be rescued will no longer have to suffer, so I am comforted by that. And the fact that there are people who share my deep love and respect for animals and continue to fight for them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618220 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:05:42 +0000 RoseandJoan 1618220@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Who was is that said 'one person dying is a tragedy, one hundred people dying is a statistic' or words to that effect? The logic has always resonated with me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618172 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:46:10 +0000 Summer 1618172@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have no words, just commiserations with your sadness. &nbsp;Humans can be inexplicably cruel at times. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618143 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 06:36:54 +0000 Adelfa 1618143@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Some people have empathy, and some don't. The ones who don't can cause a lot of pain. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618071 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 03:05:43 +0000 Joyce B 1618071@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When you see what they did to that poor little dolphin for their own pleasure as a mob, you know who the real animals are. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618056 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:38:36 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 1618056@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think that may be it ... The one individual. Still very sad </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning/page/2#post-1618053 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:33:51 +0000 catgirl 1618053@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you all so much. I have been miserable all day over this. Ummlila, I have a theory about your and my situation. It's like the young women held captive as sex slaves by that Castro sicko. A ton of money was raised for them, yet ask people to give to causes to fight against trafficking women and they won't. Somehow we identify with the single entity that personifies the whole giant mess - thinking of all the refugee children is overwhelming to the point of paralysis, but one child is comprehensible and somehow crystallizes our emotions. Same with this dolphin - I know the reality of The Cove and mass dolphin slaughter, and it is too much to process, but this single helpless baby brings it all to a sharp point.</p> <p>UGH. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1618050 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:57:03 +0000 SarahTheWhite 1618050@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh how sad! I can't stand cruelty to animals and children. There is something so sickening about hearing of people inflicting pain on helpless ones... I'm so sorry you carried this burden today. I hope your furry babies brought comfort when you came home! They are ADORABLE but the way. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1618049 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:51:01 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 1618049@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>However, I was thinkng about a friend I made recently from my hometown in Saudi Arabia. She's American and I disagree hugely with most of her political views. Yet she spends a vast amount of her free time rescuing stray and abused animals, raising money for them via yard sales and so on, and it made me feel a little better about humankind to know that she arranged treatment for a paralyzed dog, got her a back end wheelchair, and is personally escorting her to a new home in Texas next week. And she does that sort of thing all the time. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1618043 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:42:21 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 1618043@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That story upset me all day today, too, to the extent I was avoiding current events sites so I wouldn't have to see it again. I am horribly upset by learning of ways that humans are terrible to animals. I fell like we have a greater duty to these innocent species. My husband always tells me that I don't feel enough sympathy to e.g., refugee children. I don't lack empathy to anyone yet somehow the animal stories freak me out more than anything and I don't know why. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1618038 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:30:49 +0000 Beth Ann 1618038@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Events like this a reminder to be aware of how we can influence one another for good or evil, as well as a call to make a daily practice of kindness and humility. &nbsp;We reinforce what we "practice," and what we watch and read, and the input from the people we bring into our circle, are all a part of reinforcing what is best in us.....or what is worst.</p> <p>The fact that this horrible thing hurt you deeply is a sign that your conscience is still soft -- a good, if painful, thing. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1618013 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:23:49 +0000 Diana 1618013@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ugh. People are awful. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617986 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:59:12 +0000 Meredith 1617986@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm pretty sure I follow more animal rescues or animal "personalities" than people on social media. The rescue stories can be heartbreaking, but I appreciate they also present the stories of people DOING something to counter the evil in the world.</p> <p><a href="http://barkpost.com/fifty-2-legged-pitbull-gets-foster-puppy-jane/" rel="nofollow">http://barkpost.com/fifty-2-le.....uppy-jane/</a></p> <p><a href="https://instagram.com/p/BB76AN6st39/" rel="nofollow">https://instagram.com/p/BB76AN6st39/</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617985 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:58:51 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1617985@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, I don't think of animals on the same level as humans, but that doesn't mean I condone cruelty or thoughtlessness. In fact, just the opposite - we are thinking beings, so we should be thoughtful about our actions, especially to other creatures that we have power/control over. Just to provide a different point of view... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617973 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:46:41 +0000 Mochi 1617973@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no. Totally hear you. Perhaps it's even more disturbing, in a way, that these people were not intending for the dolphin to die...but were such thoughtless, narcissistic idiots. Selfies?? WTF.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Cecil the Lion story is one that comes to mind that brought me to tears.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617947 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:38:44 +0000 El Cee 1617947@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I read about this horrible incident earlier today. It broke my heart. You are right. Where is our compassion? I believe that we are, as humans, called to be good stewards of this planet -- which includes compassionate treatment of animals. Like LACeleste, I worry about the narcissism I see in our culture. I do not understand how capturing the perfect "selfie" is so darned important &nbsp;-- and the life of an innocent creature is of less importance. Thanks for including the link to the story about the man who saved a crocodile. It gives me hope. By the way, your fur babies are beautiful. I am the proud mom of a big floofy rescue cat… 20 pounds of pure love and joy! (I think she's the one who "rescued" me.)</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617931 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:45:23 +0000 Lyn D. 1617931@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was very sad to read about this today,<br />I am seriously considering not listening or reading the news these days because of all the inhumanity out there </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617917 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:32:06 +0000 Angie 1617917@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lara hit the nail on the head, Una. To some people, animals are on a MUCH lower level to humans - to the extent that they actually believe that they don't feel pain, or that it doesn't matter if they do. I don't get that mentality because it goes against the very core of my being - <b></b>I put many animals on a pedestal and above humans<b> </b>- but the world is unfortunately full of people who think quite the opposite. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617905 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:12:17 +0000 Anonymous 1617905@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I can not imagine what kind of person(s) could/would do this! I guess people put themselves on a different level than animals. I think that all life is precious and every precaution should be taken to preserve and respect life. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617900 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:05:15 +0000 viva 1617900@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't understand these stories at all. I really want to always have faith in people and to believe they are capable of the best thinking and judgement. And I am willing to cut individuals a lot of slack for poor judgement based on really difficult, challenging circumstances. But pure cruelty toward the innocent -- animals, children, the elderly -- I will never understand. It doesn't anger me as much as it saddens me so so deeply, to my innermost core. People who are capable of that kind of act are just beyond my comprehension. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617899 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:04:15 +0000 LACeleste 1617899@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi Una,<br />Yes, the story was on my news feed front page. &nbsp;The headline told me enough. &nbsp;Sickening. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/traumatized-by-animal-cruelty-trigger-warning#post-1617898 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:02:28 +0000 catgirl 1617898@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Donna, isn't it sweet?&nbsp; She just happened to be sitting that way... :)&nbsp; The other kitten in the j. crew box was another spontaneous moment.&nbsp; Thanks! </p>