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How do you know that animals are fine?
by wruza 3y ago
How do you know that animals are fine?
- Workaccount2 3y agoBecause you only see the ones who are doing fine.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThis. Animals in nature are incredibly healthy. You won't see any with even a deep cut.
- saghm 3y agoIsn't that because the ones who aren't healthy die? That sounds like saying we shouldn't bother having modern medicine because it causes us to have a lot more sick people. The problem is we wouldn't have a lot more healthy people that way; we'd have a lot more dead people.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThat's exactly what the comment I was replying to said. An alternative explanation is that nature is some peaceful place where no animal ever gets hurt, for any reason... What would be a purely comedic exercise if people weren't believing this one all over the thread.
- wruza 3y agoIt is. This subthread is clearly ironic.
- wouldbecouldbe 3y agoAll my cats, dogs, horses & chickens have all been drinking rain & groundwater. They've never died of any infectious disease, nor needed treatment.
- ianburrell 3y agoHave they ever had the runs? Giardia can be fatal to puppies and sick dogs. The danger isn't rainwater. It is stagnant water and running water that has been contaminated. Both are more of a problem in rural and wilderness where there are animals that have been contaminated.
- daddylongstroke 3y agoHmmm, most of my friends' animals (pets) kept at home, medicated, fed "pet food" and "clean" water, tend to be significantly sicker than my outside-kept animals, and always seem to have a short lifespan. They have certainly had the runs more often than my outside-only-"kept" animals. My cats literally drink stagnant water every single day, algae, bacteria, various protozoa and all. The safety'ism in HN is out of control.
- pixl97 3y ago"If you ignore the worms it's all good!"
- daddylongstroke 3y agoAnd you should, as they're largely beneficial.
- daddylongstroke 3y ago? Because we raise them, live with them, watch them live a long and healthy life?