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Siobhan Jess's avatar

Your mum sounds like a wonderful soul. I only contribute on a much smaller scale with foster kittens in my home. You learn a lot about boundaries and behaviour when you are trying to get feral, abandoned, and relinquished kittens used to your hands and voice and home, then ready for their forever homes.

From experience, people who are kind to animals aren't always kind to humans. There's a Nat Geo series now on YouTube called 'Beastly' where you see several examples of people who've clearly been badly hurt, and can only love animals, but in doing so turn the animals into 'babies'.

Equally though, people who are unkind to humans, are almost always unkind to animals too.

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Stephen Kent's avatar

She is a sweet lady. We had a long talk recently about animals being training for how we treat human beings. Like what good is it if you're kind to cats and awful to people? Similarly, people who are awful to animals tend to be ready to unleash hell on human beings.

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