a special hell

[2eclipse]

l (coworker): oh yes, we have a cat. she is such a sweetie. her name is swannie. and you know we just moved back into our house. we moved out so that we could fix it up and we just moved back. we left her there while we were gone. there's a barn there and we keep a cat door there for her. she's a good hunter and keeps all the mice away. sometimes she scares the neighbors though. she had frostbite on her ears so she's just got little nubs of ears left. and we have a dog. he just loves her. he picks her up by the neck and shakes her. and you'd think she'd smack him, but she just takes it. they have kind of a weird relationship. only she has kittens every year and one time when she was pregnant she got up on the tractor and got away from him. we have coyotes and such in the area so the kitties don't normally last long.
me: you know it's really bad for her to have kittens every year. it takes a lot of nutrients out of the mama's body and can really wear her out.
l: well we like to keep a kitty or two.
me: yes, but you want to keep HER, don't you? having kittens every year will kill her. ask your vet if you don't believe me. it will do the same to us. i know a guy who's grandmother had 14 kids and she wound up in a wheelchair and eventually died because the nutrition had been leeched out of her body. the babies always come first.
l: well our vet, he's not really a cat person.
me: well maybe you ought to get a vet who is a cat person

i just feel sick hearing this kind of thing and i hear it ALL THE DAMN TIME!!!

is there a special hell for people who don't care for their pets? please God let people FEEL the abuse and/or neglect they inflict on their animals and learn from it before they can come into your glory.

Comments

[linacandle.livejournal.com]

I've never heard that babies can make you die sooner. Do you have any research I could look at?

But another reason to hate kids and love birth control for me!

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

having kids like most people do in the states is pretty safe. it is when you have SUPER BIG families that the mom needs to worry about her health. and things like pregnancy vitamins and proper nutrition can help mothers stay healthy through more pregancies - but this is not the case with stray or feral animals who have no one looking after their nutrition.
most of the articles i was able to search and fine were about animals, not humans. i think this is because we don't tend to have as many babies in the US. but i got this from dietary recommendations from the FAO - http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/ad454e/ad454e07.htm
"Frequent pregnancies drain a mother’s nutritional resources and cause further malnutrition, which increases the likelihood of low birth-weight, delayed development and infant mortality." - which is more about the baby than the mother, but still impacts the mother
i also found this (http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Frequent_pregnancies_exhausting_mothers_71148.shtml) from uganda, and this (http://www.unscn.org/archives/scnnews11/ch12.htm) which is from a US study.

[linacandle.livejournal.com]

That's super awesome! Thanks for the info! I feel bad for the octo-mom, just a little, if this is true for humans too.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

yeah, octo-mom(kinda makes her sound like a superhero) may very well have some health problems in her future.
i believe osteoperosis was a lot more common in this country as well when women were still having tons of kids here (and i guess some still are, but it's less common).