My personal tidbit (from a young twenty year old who moved out when she was eighteen)-Plans change! Oh, how I thought I had everything figured out, Haha, those were good times! I never planned for my parents to get divorced and not be able to financially support me, I didn’t plan fall in love and to get married so young, I didn’t even conceive to possibilty of moving to another state (where property is much, much more expensive), I didn’t plan to get demoted at my job and frantically have to search for a new one, I never considered that I would be eating fish and rice for dinner every night to ensure my pets (that I am fully committed to) eat the best food available. That’s just scratching the surface.
Pets are a big responsibility and I convinced my mother to keep every single dog (4) I brought home, telling her I would take care of them, I would take them to College with me, no way I would stay in an apartment or dorm. She foolishly trusted her daughter thinking she was a mature young lady who had an undying love for animals- now my dad is stuck with three dogs (I was willing to take one because they wanted to give her to the shelter). Now I have two large dogs! We moved to live with my grandmother-in-law who said she could provide free housing for us while we were in college (turned her garage into a studio apartment), said she was fine with dogs (she can’t stand finding one hair on her clothes, laundry is in our house, and was very impatient when we trained them to stop barking- she wanted to use a shock collar but we used counter conditioning), she said she could support us when we needed help, we can have any animal except a snake or spider. Sounds like it worked out? She lost her businesses, is struggling to keep her (ours too) house, and guess what- we got our ducks already! Boy did I struggle to find an affordable place that would allow all my babies, it’s out there, but who knows how comfortable they will be moving? We don’t even know if we’re movinng yet! I don’t want this unstable life for them, I don’t plan on staying here for 5+ years so that means I’ll have to (and my babies will) move again!! But I made this commitment and I trust myself more than anyone else. I don’t want to find them a home, but if it comes to it I will do extensive research to find one I trust. This is a last case scenario.
Also, I have no social life- can’t stay out late because I have to put my ducks in their coop by sunset. Have to work during free time, while still going to school! I have to strictly correspond my schedule with my husband to make sure no one is being neglected. We have to walk our dogs three times a day because our grandmother doesn’t have a grassy backyard, my two large dogs (75lbs and 45lbs) are in a studio apartment with us, although they love it, it gets stressful being in sure close confinement.
You can do it, but I wish someone could have foretold my future. I don’t know if I would change it though! Best of luck. Sorry to dump this on you!
... You ARE saying people should feel guilty, as though they are hurting anything or our planet, by eating meat, and I am saying they absolutely are not, and not only that trying to make people feel guilty for being born omnivores is mentally warped and turning people from our cause, because thinking people know humans need meat to be healthy. They crave it, because humans need it to be healthy. If you want to be vegetarian go for it but you're not helping the planet, and you're not helping me save it by making people think in order to save the planet they have to do unnatural things like stop eating meat. No offence..
