[Animals] What it means to be responsible with our animals

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Why are animals not pets? Why are we not their owners but their guardians? Starting from this understanding, we will be able to better understand how to exercise responsible guardianship.

Our relationship with animals, especially with those of companionship or affection, does not escape these necessary modifications when it comes to being able to summarize current links and proceed
In recent times, much has been said about the deconstruction of behaviors and languages in relation to the link between genders and the positioning of behaviors that are another common outbreak and today are not well seen.

Many actions have been modified in relation to this issue in the current social evolution. Our relationship with animals, especially with those of companionship or affection, does not escape these necessary modifications when it comes to being able to summarize current links and proceed.

 

When it comes to putting into practice, our responsible attitude towards the animals that share our daily lives, we must materialize it in attitudes and behaviors to facilitate their well-being
In this way and in this sense, the word pet should be banished from our usual language since its strong meaning is that of talisman, thing or element that brings luck and anyone that is related to a pet, be it a dog or a cat. , knows reliably that an animal gives us much more than luck, it gives us reciprocal love, containment, affection, company but luck, beyond any superstition, is very insignificant in relation to everything that our mutual relationship entails.

Another of the words that we have to modify in our daily language is owner, since one is the owner of a thing and not of a living being, a non-human, sensitive, sentient and suffering person, a true subject of law of which we are simply guardians due to their legal incapacity.

We are the legal guardians of the animals in our emotional environment and their fellow travelers in coexistence with them.

 

The word pet should be banished from our everyday language since its strict meaning is talisman.
Based on all these considerations, the word possession should also be replaced by guardianship or tutelage, since things are held but living beings are protected.

Beyond the legal difficulties in the face of name and nomenclature changes to entities and programs, the trend should reflect this change in attitude to which the evolution of paradigms has driven us in recent times.

When it comes to putting it into practice, we must materialize our responsible attitude towards the animals that share our daily lives in attitudes and behaviors to facilitate their well-being and the balance of the relationship.

 

We must provide education through training (Istock)
A responsible guardian must provide a balanced diet according to their species, breed, size and stage of life and preventive and corrective veterinary care to the animals in their relationship throughout their lives.

Likewise, we must provide education through training that makes it possible to establish limits and rules, achieving a correct relationship with humans and other animals.

It is also our responsibility to carry out games and walks, taking them out for a walk with a collar, leash and bag, preventing wandering and fecalism in the road.

 

It is also our responsibility to carry out games and walks, taking them out for a walk with a collar, leash and bag, preventing wandering and road fecalism.
Finally, the early castration of males and females is a social and ethical obligation that prevents diseases and unwanted procreation, the silent scourges that arise from an inadequate relationship with our pets.

 

Link: https://www.infobae.com/america/perrosygatos/2022/05/03/que-significa-ser-responsables-con-nuestros-animales/