Is it normal that i get depressed when i see an animal in pain?

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Well I'm very sensitive about animals and their rights as living beings but no one I know feels it so deep as I do.
When I see an animal in pain or distress I get a huge pit in my stomach, my head starts spinning and I sometimes throw up. I don't know why but they are the only thing I have ever since my parents took away my dog. I really need your help please write back and vote.

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  • Bone1999
    13 years ago

    Ah good thanks for your answers peeps!

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Yeah it's never fun seeing an animal in pain.

    It's a shame though we extend compassion to things that look cute and fuzzy but won't towards snakes, spiders, and lobsters that have life as well.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    For sure!
    I don't cry during sappy movies, but I'll start bawling my eyes out if I see animal abuse. I can't help but think about my own pets being in a situation like that... Then the tears come.

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  • dappled
    13 years ago

    I have a very long fuse and animal abuse is about the only thing which bypasses that fuse. Coming home from work, I saw a 14-year old boy hanging his puppy by its leash and enjoying watching it choke and struggle. I'm ashamed to say that I came close to laying him out flat. Not normal behaviour for me at all, but animal abuse provokes me to the point of violence.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      I would have decked him one for that, regardless of his age! :O

      It scares me how many youngsters and young adults (even though old adults do too) seem to think it's funny to hurt an animal. At least there are some decent people around though! :D

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  • Janet1957
    12 years ago

    I understand cause I feel the same way. Hurt people do not effect me at all . Animals are a different story . It rips my heart out to see them in pain. Your are not wrong for feeling this.

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  • BirdyMojo
    13 years ago

    Yep same here, I can watch the goriest and most terrible treatment of humans and not really be bothered (well I do but not to the extent of animals) but I flip out over animals. One time I walked through my livingroom, and the television was on, my mom was watching a movie previously and a different movie came on... and of course the time I choose to walk in, is when it's a scene of a terribly injured dog... I almost cried and puked at the same time. >:(

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    @ maskedgunman tg

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      "Tough guy"?

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      • [Old Memory]
        13 years ago

        no no hah a h thank god, good man

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  • alv1592
    13 years ago

    yes, totally normal. the animal abuse commercials are heartbreaking. i hate seeing animals like that. :(

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    me too tori it haunts and lingers in the memory

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  • wildflowerkmk
    13 years ago

    I'm the same way. I wish I could help every animal out there!

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  • tori
    13 years ago

    It's very hard for me watch the commercials that the ASPCA puts out. The sad music, the terrified eyes, the broken and beaten bodies of our wonderful, beautiful animals. I have to turn the channel. I become a mess.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Of course!

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  • maddie123
    13 years ago

    So do I. I just want to take all the animals in shelters home!

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    That is why I use 12GA slugs and aim for the heart. They die quickly; not much pain to speak of.

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  • Bone1999
    13 years ago

    I know I saw one of my friends ripping off the legs off an ant. I got so pissed! I bashed him. I set his mind back on track while we were arguing whether it was "just an ant" or a living being as equal as a human.

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