How many of you have ever apologized to an animal?

every day when I accidentally step on my doggy's tail! she likes to get under my feet.

LOL's

I just apoligised to my cat 10 minutes ago.

Yup.

Apologize to my dogs often.

always, otherwise they will get me in my sleep...I know that look

Apologized to my dog before I put her down. She was half blind, deaf, tumors & lesions all over her, and one bad hip. When the other hip went out, I had to carry her outside 5x a day. Two days of that, and then we took a drive out to the country.

Shooting your own dog has got to be one of the hardest things ever.

Do you thank them for having the caring, innocent spirit and mindset to have not taken your redneck balls down first? Because I am pretty sure it is smarter than you but chose to not hurt you first. Idiot.

My golden retriever (Maxxypadd) is always behind me no matter where in my house I go. I am constantly running and backing into him and apologizing for it - he seems to be able to tell if it was accidental or deliberate. I have also apologized to my cats for different things, let's say I'm clumsy and they like to weave in and out of legs, especially when I'm going down the damn stairs!

While dogs (and maybe cats) don't necessarily understand the meaning of the words "I'm sorry," they do understand a person's tone and intent very well. I don't know how many times I've stepped on my old dog's paw, told her I'm sorry, and instead of being angry she would instead nuzzle up against me or lick my hand.

Why would you shoot your own dog? It far more humane to take her to the vet and have her injected while she lays lovingly in your arms with you reassuring her it will be ok and that you love her...sure it takes about 5 minutes longer but she would have gone in a loving way. All she took from the experience you gave her was she was bad and you were mad and you killed her. I hope you live with THAT thought for a long time.

just ask

"what would Lou Reed do?"

I am not gay asswipe. Not that anything is wrong with being gay. I am glad you are such a "MAN" that you can take down an innocent animal just to feed your filthy stomach and to feed your filthy Ego by putting its head on a wall for your personal trophy satisfaction. I guess those who have pencil dicks need to do that kind of thing. I am female by the way and would gladly meet up with you and twist your balls until they are purple and then pop them with a horn of something you killed in the name of "sport".

I don't see where he said he takes a deer down for sport.

I see where he says he takes a deer down for subsistence.

Many people kill animals to live on this earth.

There are those who do kill for such sport, however.

Why are you being so harsh?

Is this a carry over from another thread?

yes to my dog when he gets in my way and i run into him or stand on him lol..i apologised to my dogs when ive had to have them put down,and thanked them in the same breath...last week i hit a magpie driving i stopped got out held it while it died and apologised, balling my eyes out,

''Apologized to my dog before I put her down. She was half blind, deaf, tumors & lesions all over her, and one bad hip''

She probably never saw it coming, and was suffering terribly according to that description.

It's very hard to take the life of an animal you love and you do think about it for a long time afterwards, but you know you did the right thing. Don't be so quick to judge...have you ever seen an animal suffering on the edge of death before? Its quite troubling when you realise the compassionate option is to 'end it' now...

^^^^^THIS^^^^^ I do this as well, even if I am eating meat from the store. If you look at Native American teachings they always tell you to thank the animal and it's spirit for providing you with what you need from it. Hence the fact they used every piece of the animal.

I apologize all the time. But he never apologizes to me.

Typical man!

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wow great to see most of us respect animals

Good on you.

used to kill ants one by one in the summertime with my thumb for fun. what a little shit i was.. nowadays that i'm all growed up I make it my duty to not kill a single living thing, be it as small as ant

Yep, I do. Hubby use to say I even apologize to the table I bump into. It is heartfelt for the animals.

Indeed.

i voted fuck you data miner!
just to make a point.
You can have this bit of data for your mine.
i apologize to animals often, i got chickens running around free, so there is alot of apologizing.
Sometimes they work together and set me up so when i am walking or doing something and turn around i have to break my neck to not fall over them.

I try to explain to the chickens,
before I chop their heads off,
that it's nothing personal.
All I ever get is a blank stare.

I do, its mainly bugs and spiders though ;)

I love my cat but I cuss at her more than apologize to her. As far as Im concerned she needs to do the apologizing for scratching the sh*t out of me and trying to kill me by getting under my feet all the time.

I apologize to my cats when I accidently kick them or have closed them up accidently. And when I have been away and they had to wait long for some meat.

Should we start worrying when we apologize to plants and bugs?

people who have no-regard for other lifeforms , certainly cant be expected to care for you.