if it turned out animals suffer more in the wild than in domestic captivity, would you still have doubts about the ethics of pets?
i don't really know anything about the ethics of pets, i just have personal psychological issues about pets because when i was a kid we had a cat and a dog, and the dog ended up killing the cat, and then eventually we moved to a new house and i think we had to kill the dog. i'm pretty sure a lot of people have their pets killed if they can't house them anymore. because i'm assuming most people don't want to buy an old pet. also sometimes people mutilate their genitals ???? whatever. it's none of my business really, but a lot of times people do get very angry at me for simply stating that i would prefer not to own a pet. (