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01-21-2008 05:37 AM |
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Originally Posted by Sparky
(Post 69806)
That happened to someone on a rat LJ community years ago Lynnie. The girl's brother (and I think his girlfriend was involved) poisoned her favorite rat just because he didn't like rats. It died a slow, horrible death and she couldn't save it. She wasn't able to move out, so she just had to go on knowing he might do it again.
My parents hated rats too. My dad caught me playing with the neighbor's baby rats once, dragged me inside, and beat me with his belt.
Guess what dad? I STILL LOVE RATS. You taught me something that day, but not what you meant to.
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My mother was determined to beat the fear/hate of snakes into me when I was a child. She was a genuine ophidiophobe, and could not understand why anyone would actually like anything that caused her so much fear, and she believed to her bi-polar soul that HER feelings on any matter should be EVERYONE'S, no exceptions. If anything, it made me that much more determined to learn more about snakes and be around them whenever I got the chance. I actually got bitten by a baby Copperhead, a venomous species, when I was nine, and never told anyone because I literally feared that my mother would be more likely to kill me or cause me irreparable harm than the snakebite. I got horribly sick(I tend to have systemic, rather than localized, reactions to venoms), and everyone thought I had a really bad case of "summer flu"(whatever THAT is), and no one had any clue I'd been bitten by a snake. I toughed it out, basically. When I was 12, I whupped HER butt one good time, when she tried to punch me for stepping between her and my younger brother, who has Asperger's, and whom she literally hated and was probably literally trying to kill. She couldn't deal with the fact that HER only son wasn't "normal"(as if she was), and it's a miracle that he survived. After I turned the tables on her, though, I was officially granted permission to keep snakes, with the old admonition, "If we find you dead out in the yard from getting bit, you can't say we didn't tell you so!". Well, countless snakes and bites later, I'm still here. My mother passed away on her 46th birthday from the effects of COPD(Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), the result of having smoked several packs a day since the age of 13. Hmmmm...wonder what is more dangerous and kills more people, snakes, or cigarette smoking?
Wonder how many of those who rant about snakes, rats, Pit Bulls, spiders, etc. being dangerous killer animals, indulge in tobacco use in some form?
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