Teary-eyed Too Much

[Callie]

I admire your sensitivity to the suffering of the animals.

As you go through life, you may find that administering to the young, old, handicapped, frail, etc. of your own species who also suffer will call to you as well. That's what happened to me. At my rather ripe old age, life has been a lifetime of love extended to all God's creatures...be they human or otherwise. I wish the same joyous rewards to you. God bless you.

Callie

[Medusa]

I can't stand to hear stories or watch movies where an animal is in peril, let alone hurt and/or abused. If I know of someone who has hurt an animal, god/dess help them. Your reaction is normal and someone who thinks it's amusing to relate a story about animal abuse will find out immediately from me that it ain't funny! I don't even tolerate cat jokes if they're unkind in any way.

[Kalei]

Thanks so much everyone, thanks for even reading it, its pretty long. I am so happy to know that I'm not the only one that's this way, my mom says that I should try to strengthen myself and not get so worked up, but I don't think I could ever not get worked up over the thought of an animal getting hurt.

I use to know a lady (she was the wife of a pastor) and she hated cats like no other. I went downstairs in her house one day and she owned a book called "How to Kill the Cat" and I looked inside it and it had many many pages of different ways to kill a cat with pictures to show, not real cat pictures, but cartoon pics.

My stomach felt sick, while other people were laughing at it, I shut it and put it down and walked away.

[DJFyrewolf36]

People really irritate me. Trust me, I get very emotional when I hear about some inconciderate @$$ mistreating an animal. I think "What if that was YOUR kid" Some people are just not able to process an animal as a sentient, pain-feeling being. Im glad there are those of us who are though! Im proud to be an animal lover and you should be too!