The latest from the angry sugar-glider camp, I kid you not:
“How horrible. Thoose little sugargliders should eat YOU alive.”
So says Jen, who also says, “You are nasty.”
liz | 12:39 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Maybe she meant it in that loving Bubbe way of “I could eat you up you’re so cute”.
And wasn’t it Vanity who asked the musical question ” Do you think I’m a nasty girl?” Some questions remain forever unanswered.
Back in college, my roommate and I found an infant kitten abandoned in the bushes outside of our apartment. The poor little thing kept crying for its mother so we took it in. My roommate’s mother was a cat breeder and she herself knew a thing or two about how to care for infant kittens. Despite all of our best efforts, the kitten died in the middle of the night. There was absolutely nothing we could do to save that kitten’s life.
Nature will do whatever it wants. As horrible as that might be, there is nothing anyone can do to prevent that. Anyone that doesn’t understand and believe that is either lying to themselves or has a god complex.
To say that the only way an animal could die is through old age simply because they are under the care of another animal that has found novel and efficient ways to destroy this planet and each other is simply absurd.
Pet ownership does not equate a move beyond the laws of nature and ensure survivability.
I once had gerbils who ate their babies. I think the sight of that was so horrifying that I realize you are scarred enough by what happened. People should be supporting you not denigrating you.
LOL at people berating you for putting an animal back in its cage. Take it easy, Liz. You deserve a break.
…and I can only imagine the rants they sent to DHS. I wish I had a copy of those…
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