'I Confess …'

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5/9/2008 1:31:24 PM

I know for fact about this as my Aunts horse suffered from this. When vets are bought in and they sedate a horse in a barn they never think to put a soft thick cushion or even blanket down to protect the horses face from hay/straw from scratching their faces. My Aunts horse got a infected eye and is now blind in that eye as knowone seemed to think about where there faces may land (ie on a sharp jagged bit of hay)

5/9/2008 12:18:29 AM

when i was about 11 years old i went away to camp during the summer. i had 2 pet frogs and my mom promised to take care of them. when i got home from camp they were perfectly fine, but i became so used to my mom taking care of them that i started to forget about them. well the frogs had a heat lamp so i had to mist their tank regularly, but i forgot. one day i finally decided to give them some attention and when i looked into the aquarium they were dead. to this day i still think about it and it makes me cry because even though they were frogs and i wasn't as close to them as other pets, i never should have let them die like that. i'm so sorry for not being responsible and not caring for them.

5/8/2008 9:52:14 PM

I used to have so many pets, i had at least 2 rabbits and 2 guinea pigs and i often got tired of cleaning their cages so often and everything. I feel bad now because that was a small price to pay for their friendship. Also, this one particular time, i was letting my animals stay outside and i guess i didn't realize the weather was way too hot for an animal to stay outside in. She ended up dying from a heat stroke and i was heartbroken. Also, my nearest and dearest pet, Zuzu, my guinea pig, passed away when she was alone and i wanted so bad to have been there. I cried my heart out and i still cry to this day when that happened 2 years ago. She was my first pet and i loved her sooo much. I wish i had more time to say goodbye and i wish i had spent more time with her beforehand. Zuzu, if you can hear me, i love you soo much and i hope you knew that. I miss you so so much and i hope your looking down on me and eating all the carrots and grass you want and with all of your buddies. Love you, zooz. <3

5/8/2008 9:03:35 PM

I confess, that i have not been paying much attention to my rabbit. As of right now, i am promising myself, and the life of my bunny, Storm, that i will pay more attention to him. Take him out everyday, and check everything in his cage, everyday. iloveyouu, Storm. Im sorry.

5/8/2008 7:47:25 PM

I ignored my cats when they wanted my attention.

5/8/2008 6:39:07 PM

When I was a child my sister bought a hamster from the pet shop and it had seven babies. Because we had so many they only had small cages, and as a child I didnt even notice. I feel really bad about that and now as an adult Ive got a hamster that Ive had for over a year and she has a massive cage with lots of tunnels. I try to get her out as often as I can but I still feel bad sometimes that I dont let her run around freely enough. Also when I was a child, we kept two of the hamster babies together, not realising that hamsters are solitary animals,and consequency poor wriggles was killed by her sister. Im sorry wriggles. Another confession is that when we had one hamster left called Ratty,on one summers night my mum persuaded us to put Ratty in the shed in her cage as she said Ratty was in the way. Me and my sister stupidly did not put up much of a fight, and the next morning when we went to feed her she had somehow escaped and thus was probably eaten by an owl or next doors cat. Im sorry Ratty.

5/8/2008 4:41:16 PM

When I was in highshool, I bought a pet rat with my friend. I ended up keeping it at my house and eventually got bored with him and would rarely clean his tank. He was probably one of the coolest pets I had ever had and I neglected him. I had him for a couple years in filthy conditions that smelled of urine. He eventually got somekind of mites and a tumor. I only started really caring for him once he got sick. One day he would get up and started convulsing, I stayed with him until he died. I will never forget what I did to him by not giving him a better environment.

5/8/2008 4:26:25 PM

As young children, my brother and I had pet rabbits that lived in a hutch in the backyard. There were days where I didn't feed them or water them, simply because it was raining or too cold or I was just too lazy. I feel so guilty about them living out in a backyard hutch, and I feel even more guilty about neglecting them so much. I wish I had never owned them so I wouldn't have to feel this guilt anymore. I'm so sorry bunnies. I think of you everyday.

5/8/2008 4:12:00 PM

When I was about 9, I had two young cats. My parents divorced and my step-mom didn't like them so she forced them to live outside. I still fed them and pet them, but I felt so bad for leaving them all alone. One day when I got back from my mom's house they were gone. Of course my parents said they "ran away" but I don't believe that. My uncle's ex-girlfriend told me that my step-mom had him drop them off on the other side of town on the streets somewhere. And now I feel so terrible. But now I have two other kitties and I love them to death. I just wish kitties could be vegetarian like me.

5/8/2008 3:49:14 PM

I used to have pet goldfish and then a pet betta fish, and after reading the section "caring for fish" i truly realized what a horrible life my poor fishies led. I loved my goldfish and provided them with a large bowl with lots of play stuff in it that i always kept clean, but once I left one in my house while i went on vacation and returned to find the house at like 100 degrees and my poor little Iggy all boiled up in his bowl. I always felt like my betta fish, Prince Leopold was very bored but I never realized how much room and extra habitat he required. I feel really bad for being ignorant of proper fish care and I'm sorry little fishies.

5/8/2008 3:28:25 PM

Once when I was little, maybe 7 or 8, my neighbor and I found a bird's nest in the backyard. My parents told me not to pick up or touch any of the eggs, but when they left I started playing with one and it broke. It still bothers me to this day, years and years later, that I killed a baby bird.

5/8/2008 3:19:50 PM

When I was a kid, we had a lovely little parakeet named Tink. We loved her very much and considered her a member of the family. When we first got her, she got out of her cage, and flew around the room, and we couldn't catch her. That was the only time she ever flew (outside of her cage, which was big enough for her to flutter from perch to perch, but not actually fly). We always intended get around to "bird-proofing" the house and letting her out, but we never did. I can't stand to think about the fact that she spent over a decade, and her ENTIRE life, in a cage. I feel overwhelmingly guilty and I always will, and even now I'm writing this through tears.

5/8/2008 1:39:36 PM

When I was 9, dad bought me two goldfish from a local petsmart--Tiggy and Tizer. I loved those fish, but I really didn't know how to care for them properly. The leaflets I got recommended filling the "tank" with tapwater, and I didn't know any better. When they got sick after two weeks I was devastated, and didn't know what to do. One died first, and the other died of grief the next day. I later learned of the cruelty that goes on in PetSmart stores and realised the fish were probably dying when I got them. I shudder to think how many well-meaning animal lovers make the same mistake every day. Tiggy, Tizer--I'm sorry I didn't take better care of you. Hopefully you're in a better place now.

5/8/2008 9:01:16 AM

I have been a vegetarian for a year and a half now, naturally i'm more aware of the abuse that goes into the mass breeding of dogs. when we got my first dog, it was from a breeding place in brooklyn. i had wanted a femal bichon frise, there was one girl left, she was younger than all the dogs (she was only 2 months old), they had her in the back, which struck me as being weird, when i saw here i fell in love with her. my dad had made a comment that she looked sick and that we should get one of the lively 3 month old males.... i couldn't bare to leave her, when we went to her vet appointment, we became aware of the many health problems she had, she had kennel cough, trick knee, and was bowl-legged, as well as being smaller than average... the vet told us by law that we could return her and get a new one, i wasn't a vegetarian then, but i stilled loved dogs with a passion, dogs are not like a pair a shoes that can be exchanged. i knew that if we were to return her that she may be put down because no one would want a sick puppy. looking back, it is one of the best decisions i ever made. my dog is now 3 (she'll be 4 june 20th). to me althought she was not a shelter dog,i feel as if my famiyly saved her from possibly not having a healthy life. i am so blessed to have her now, her little quirks are what makes me want to come home to her every day, i love her soooo much, she still has minor health problems but she is way better off now. Nikki i love you so much!!! and regret ever considering giving you up!!!!!

5/7/2008 5:59:44 PM

Two years ago, I adopted a dog who was a victim of abuse and who had trauma-induced epilepsy from a shelter in Las Vegas. I loved him, and he loved me, but because of the abuse he had a hard time accepting others and would sometimes have moments of rage. He bit me on two different occasions, and then one morning while I was brushing him, he began to become aggravated and growled, but I was in a hurry to get to work and didn't want to leave his fur unbrushed. He bit me, and I went to the emergency room, and ended up having him put to sleep later that very same day. If only I had been more patient that morning and read his body language, perhaps my best friend would still be here. I still second-guess my decision to euthanise him, but I loved him dearly and will never forget him.

5/7/2008 3:05:30 PM

Also - When I was a kid, we were ignorant and didn't neuter our first two male cats. Both roamed and one for sure sired a kitten (neighbor kids brought us the kitten). The dad got into fights and had FIV and ran away (we think he was hit by a car). His child had FeLV and died also. Ever since then I have been unyielding in the call to spay/neuter and to never let house animal companions go outside!

5/7/2008 9:16:33 AM

When I was about 8 years old, our family had two dogs. Gypsy, was a mixture of things. My parents had rescued her when she was just a pup because her owner had an unwanted litter, and was going to take care of the problem by "drowning" them. She was around from the day I was born. I remember being around 8 years old and Gypsy was getting old. She couldn't walk or hold her bladder. We lived in an old house with a woodstove. Gypsy was made to stay out in a shed like area hooked onto the house. She always had food and water, but we all pretty much acted as if she didn't exist. It makes me sad now to look at the family photos of me as a baby with gypsy right by my side. She loved me so much. To think of her now, as being so loyal and then being forced to live on a blanket all alone to die. It was winter when I remember.... She must have been so sad and cold. One day I came home from school, and she was in a black garbage bag in the back of my dad's truck. My parents buried her out back of our house. At the time I was sad and thought it was cruel then the way she was living. I have always had a special attatchment to animals. I wish I could've spoken up and taken care of her.

5/6/2008 11:20:17 PM

This always, ALWAYS, haunts me. One night, a long while back, I was being a bratty kid. I was arguing nonstop. My orange cat Tiger, just happened to be napping on the floor next to my feet. I was so angry about some stuff, that when I was leaving the room, I kicked Tiger... I have NEVER forgotten that. And I will NEVER EVER EVER be able to forgive myself for hurting that precious animal. Tiggy, I'm so sooooo so sorry kitten. I'm crying as I'm writing this. You meant the world to me.

5/6/2008 11:36:38 AM

I left two guinea pigs in a glass tank in the summer in Phoenix, outiside, sob, without water because I left for work without tending to them. They were my friends and I neglected them. When I got home they had almost expired..and I tried to help them but it was too late. I carry the guilt of my sin on that day in my heart. I only wish there was some way to turn back the clock and save them. When we protest the circus, it is blazingly hot here. We go to Every show we can, and when I am sweltering, I remember my guinea friends and I hope for the circus animals that I can somehow right that wrong by helping some other animals. I also allowed a teddy bear hamster to eat until he got so fat he passed away from not having enough room to play. He would escape so we got an escape-proof house that did not give him any running around room. If I could change anything about my life, it would be these two and the frustrated times I yelled at dogs or cats who had accidents in our house. I cannot believe I ever behaved this way. :(

5/7/2008 3:02:25 PM

I have been an avid animal lover my whole life, but I too have been guilty of transgressions that haunt me to this day. Some of it, I didn't know any better, some of it, I meant to do better and didn't. * When I was like 3, we were visiting family friends and I took scissors and cut off the whiskers of their cat. It was a girl cat, and I felt that "girls shouldn't have whiskers." I don't even remember it and of course they grew back, but I just can't believe I would do something like that. * When I was 7, I begged my parents for a kitten and we got one. One day, my mom was drawing my bath and he was curious and jumped up on the bathtub rim to see it. I snuck up behind him and pushed him in, then lied to my mom and said he slipped. I still feel guilty about it 25+ years later. * Due to selfishness and not willing to say good-bye, we have let our beloved animal companions to linger and suffer in terminal illness. How do you know when it changes from "not yet" to "waited too long?" Specifically, Peter, I am so sorry I let you suffer with the ravages of FIP and tormented you with treatments that did more harm than good. I just loved you so much, I wanted you to be one of the rare, lucky ones. I would have done anything to help you and instead I just hurt you with force feedings and injections. Four years later, I still hate myself for waiting too long to ease your suffering. My sweet tabby boy. I miss you so much. * I have been veg for 2.5 years and slowly making the conversion to vegan, but it hurts to know what I know about the pet food industry... what can we do, kitties can't be vegan. :( I think about it every day.

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