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I sincerely hope that someday there is an end to this, but sometimes I wonder if we are just spinnign our wheels.
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Every time someone makes the choice to NOT purchase from a pet store, which we see happen here almost every day, that is a step forward. It may only be a small fraction size step, but it certainly isn't spinning wheels.
There are a lot of things in our history that took a long time to accomplish, and most those involved never thought the end was in sight. What would have happened if african americans generations ago had just thrown their hands up? Their slave owners didn't see them as human, or as having feelings, or at least not feelings that mattered. I am sure it would have been an easy thing to do, fighting for what they believed in wasn't convenient, or easy--they often had the hell beat out of them or were killed--and I am quite sure many of them felt it was a losing battle. But they had one thing. HOPE. If you give up, and take the easy way out, your a quitter, and quitters never accomplish anything, guaranteed. HOPE makes things happen.
Why give up on something because it isn't the easiest route you could take? Why abandon things you believe in because it isn't the popular opinion? Why be afraid to be the voice against the voices?
There have been plenty.....PLENTY of animals that have begun to be viewed differently, and treated/protected differently..........because people stood up long and loud enough to be heard. Once upon a time they were "just whales" ........
If you can't grasp how people can/will ever see them more than "just a rodent" then the truth is, somewhere inside of you that is the way you see them too.