Mircheese
Moth: hmmm. That dissection page had a few things I liked and thought were good points... But the rest was pretty extreme to be credible.
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Additionally, rabbits, cats and dogs are often stolen from backyards, bought from pet stores or adopted from animal shelters, while pigs and sheep are purchased from slaughterhouses.
O_O Do people
really do that? It's funny how it says "often"... Do they mean the poor schools do this or the supply companies go stealing and falsely adopting animals? xO
And whoever wrote this paragraph must not have proofread lol:
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Using dissection to study physiology can be likened to someone taking apart a
care and inspecting a dislodged carburetor in order to understand the concept of the internal combustion engine. And studying anatomy
be killing and cutting apart an animal simply to inspect the organs, then compare them to a labeled chart, amounts to nothing more than a callous and redundant act.
Anyway, on another note, instead of making another thread about it, I'm trying to encourage some more involvement with the animals at my store. Here's a screenshot of the sign I made, lol:
Think anyone will notice and come? I already put an FAQ sign out answering the "Why are there animals in your store?" and "Are they for sale?" and "Why aren't they for sale?" etc but I'm still asked that like twenty times a day... I really want more people to actually do something with them and actually learn what our charity is about...
The thing about pigs, sheep, and other livestock animals are true (they are purchased from slaughterhouses), but dogs and cats aren't stolen from people's yards. They are euthed strays from the animal shelter. The rabbits are probably bred specifically for research purposes.
Besides, if acquisition of specimens was a problem, then they should be pushing stricter regulations for their sourcing, not just hate on dissection all together.
And the analogy about the carburetor..I'm pretty sure most mechanics will say that actually going in and investigating a car's engine, feeling and touching the parts to learn how they're put together, was much more helpful to them than just looking at a diagram of what's inside a car. Same thing if you like to put together computers.
...I just realized that had nothing to do with the point you were saying, lol. Oh well.
Speaking of proofreading errors, I read an article about large parrots in captivity written by Born Free USA. They showed some horror pictures to prove their point, and posted a picture of a featherplucked cockatoo, but the caption underneath marked it as a "cockatiel".
rolleyes
I think your sign is nice but are you sure you want to do this every day? I think it may be easier for everyone if your demonstration is just once or twice a week. You could post feeding/care time on the sign, if people might be interested in watching, but I wouldn't do a full-blown demonstration of, "Hey, this is so-and-so, he is a so-so and they have suchandsuch dietary requirements.." and so on every single day.