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To the guy I overheard on the bus talking about getting his pet rabbit stoned, eff you!! Not to mention all the other sick shit you pretty much bragged about doing to the poor creature. Bunnies are awesome, I hope you rot in hell!!!
—bunny with a pancake on his head
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2009.
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OK, I am all about animal protection, but getting your pet high on pot is not abuse. If you got your friends high all the time you’d be the best friend a guy could want.
In a world were we eat rabbits, make key chains outta their feet and use their skin to line a coat ,a few hits off a joint seems like easy street if I were a rabbit. That a carrot sounds like a pretty damn good day to me, even as a human. If i were a pet rabbit this would be the definition of ecstasy
In fact, if I ever do come back as a rabbit, I hope it’s this one.
Bleeding heart crybaby! Are you the vegan who everyone here keep posting about?
As much as I advocate for the full legalization of pot, getting your animals stoned is not right. And it is definitely not harmless. Read about what happens to dogs – slowed heart rates, incontinence, issues with their nervous systems. Now try to extrapolate for an even smaller animal like a rabbit. Don’t be an idiot, our vices are not theirs. We’ve had ~7,000-10,000 years to get used to weed, they have not.
Drugging anything for fun is an abuse of power. Simple. I’m with Three and the OP on this one.
As a seasoned stoner I would never do that to an animal – the contact smoke should be enough. Better yet, get the poor bunny-wunny some baby carrots. He’ll be much happier than having something fucking doofus blowing smoke up his tiny nostrils.
I agree with the OP, Three and TTFN on this. I too am a well seasoned pot head and doing this to animals is wrong. However OP, if you didn’t speak up and say anything to this asshole, then you’re condoning what he did. If you heard someone talkig about getting their pet high, you should have spoken up, especially if you’re so adament about it.
I used to have a bunny (RIP), and many peole would ask me if I got him “Stoned” and I had no clue what they meant. So finally, I asked someone what they meant (as I am not a stoner). Apparently if you put your bunny on its back and get its eyes to cross (make it follow your finger) it gets really loopy and dazed for a few minutes. NOthing cruel, I guess some people do it when they have to clean their bunny or trim its nails.
PS. It is super freakin cute when bunnies are running / hopping and they randomly hope super high on one kick. I miss my bunny :(.
I would not get an animal high or stoned either. Except that budgie I got in grade six and had till I was in my twenties, but that was a contact thing. Not like I set out to get him high. In reference to the affects on a dog vs a rabbit; that is not comparable. Animals of different species react differently to different chemicals. toxins, etc.
If someone bitched at me based on a comment in a conversation that they were not part of, I think I’d be inclined to tell them to “Mind your own fucking business”, regardless what the conversation was about. Well, perhaps if I were swearing around children in a loud voice or something like that, then I would say something like “ah, shit I forgot sorry.”