people can hardly fucking take proper care of a dog, or even a small fish

you have to be able to care without expecting some sort of quid pro quo, tolerate superficial injury, and also care for an animal clearly distinct from yourself and expect basically zero positive attention from others, all shit that causes problems with people having pets

which obviously isn't a valid response but usually having a shit excuse makes it a lot easier for people to escape criticism

novelty that will wear off in a couple weeks when they throw them out on the street and claim "[they're] just a raccoon so [they] can survive just fine" when people call them out

You can even get a fancy cat with spots and stripes. You can’t make a freaking raccoon or “domestic” fox happy in 99.99% of situations. If you are an eccentric millionaire who wants a pet raccoon, get an unreleasable wild one. I do not wanna see a raccoon pet trade oh my god

god damn fuck these people

you called?

4. The HHS report’s “peer review” process, which wasn't a real peer review process, was riddled with other abnormalities, too. One contributor admits to creating a rubric for evaluation using Google Gemini AI, a language learning model.