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Onision’s Animals

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In lieu of recent personal events (the loss of one of my amazing cats), I have the extreme need to write about the animal abuse going on in the Onion house. He claims to love animals, suggesting that being vegetarian makes him an infallible animal-lover.

So here’s a quick rundown on my personal background with animals:

I have a dog and 2 cats (used to have 3, just to clarify). They are very happy and very healthy. The one who passed was taken care of to the best of my ability, and while she was one of the most difficult cats I’ve ever had (tough personality), she was still loving and did not deserve the cancer she passed from. She is gone too soon, but the decision to not let her suffer anymore was more important than my need to force her to stay around for my sake. She is dearly missed.

My family used to raise tropical fish and exotic bugs.

I did a lot of animal-related camps and charity activities when I was younger. (I’m a little predisposed right now, with work and moving and stuff.)

I was a vegetarian. Turns out this made my chronic illness worse.

That’s enough background. Now into the animal abuse parts. Here’s a quick list of what he’s done that I’m aware of:

He verbally abuses his dogs.

He uses “humane” collars. (I’ll explain why they’re not.)

He mistreated his guinea pigs.

He keeps his hamsters in poor conditions. (They may be his son’s, but either way, as a parent, he’s equally responsible for the care.)

He killed his turtle.

He keeps his fish in horrible conditions.

Right. Let’s start off with the verbal abuse. This is something most of us anti-os have seen, but for those new to the community or just randomly coming across this post, here’s a link to the sound recording:

https://soundcloud.com/someguy827/onision-verbally-abusing-his-dog

I’m not going to go into this any more than that, so let’s move on to these “humane” collars.

These collars, I’m 99% certain, are vibration collars. Dogs get distracted easily, so vibration collars work by distracting the dog from barking by, well, vibrating. They don’t hurt the dog physically. That’s why they’re considered humane. But teaching dogs to not bark or growl isn’t necessarily a good thing. They bark and growl because they’re trying to tell you something. If they’re in distress or feel that they’re in danger, why would you try to stop them from expressing that? And if they’re happy, and you don’t want them to bark, teach them to do something else, like pick up a toy. It’s easier and healthier and more humane to teach your dogs to do something rather than to not do something. If the vibrations scare them, that’s also bad. Teach respect, not fear. Respect makes a healthy relationship. Fear does not.

I know very little about rodents. I wanted to own a rodent. My mom did not want me to own a rodent. (They can be smelly and our larger animals would definitely have tried to eat them.) However, I have friends who raise Guinea Pigs. They need a fair amount of space and a lot of care. They need their nails trimmed. They need attention. Hamsters need space, too. So the cages, these cages:

are NOT good. Hamsters need lateral space. They really aren’t big climbers. These cages are TINY! Most cages and fish tanks sold in major pet stores aren’t actually good for the pets and are very expensive. With rodents, the easiest thing to do is to make your own enclosure. This was posted on KiwiFarms as a review of one of the cages pictured here, and the enclosure she has in the background appears to be homemade and more along the lines of what you want for your hamsters:

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I know literally nothing about turtles, so I’ll just say this: How stupid do you have to be to think that enclosing an animal in an unbreathable container in the heat would be acceptable?

The last animal abuse instance I’ll talk about is the fish. Now, I haven’t had fish in the house for a long time due to moving. My family is very busy, so we try to limit our animal intake to only those which desperately need the kind of house we have (all of our animals are rescues). That means we don’t take fish, among other kinds of animals. However, I still know a fair amount about them. The tank Greg has looks like this:

Let me list the problems:

It’s too small.

It’s disgusting.

There are no plants.

It’s overcrowded.

It’s in the sun.

There doesn’t appear to be an aerator.

This kind of tank is good for keeping things like small reptiles, some kinds of bugs, or maybe hermit crabs, but not fish. We kept stick bugs in tanks this size since they are very sedentary creatures. Our fish were in two 70-gallon tanks. Fish are generally very active. They need to be able to swim around. The water in the tank is disgusting. Adding in plants, some algae-eating aquatic creatures, and a better filter would naturally help, but moving the tank out of the sun and cleaning it weekly are the top two things any fish owner should do. Plus, if it’s in the sun, the water is heating up and cooling down far too much for the comfort of the fish. Fish are very sensitive creatures. The water line on the tank suggests it hasn’t been cleaned in at least several weeks. If you can’t imagine sticking your head in the water and being okay, it’s not clean enough for the fish. (Side note, do not actually stick your head in your fish tank when there are fish in it.)

Anyways, that wraps up my overly-long post on Onision’s animal abuse. I’m genuinely angry at him. I love my animals with all my heart, and I can’t imagine treating any of them like this. He claims that he loves animals. He says being a vegetarian proves he loves animals. But actions speak louder than words. I was frustrated with the wetland destruction, but this is somehow more malicious. If he can’t take care of these animals, how does he take care of the most complicated animals of all: children?

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