Pandora_Box wrote:
zzmondo wrote:
I know what you mean, I used to not be able to watch those commercials about animals needing adoption with that sad music and showing the abused animals too. I can handle it fine right now, its just not the preferred commercial I want to see so I usually change the channel. More often then not though, its other members of my family that do so because they watch TV the most and I watch with one of them usually.
I'm a Natural World documentary kind of guy. I like to watch all the documentaries about the natural world. And sometimes they show some really sad stuff. I love the BBC documentaries the best, but sometimes that sad stuff. Sometimes you're just in the mood to see cute animals with a cute story, you don't want the thought of death on your mind. Well I thought I had my wish, watching an Elephant documentary and then they go with "Elephants remember their dead and can even indentify bones" and it shows baby elephants putting their trunks on their freshly dead and killed mother. The herd is calling them and trying to bring the kids back so they can move on. And I'm like, "well thanks now I feel bad, am crying. I was just in the mood to see cute elephants." completely ruined my day.
I use to work at an animal shelter, well I volunteered. And sometimes you don't feel so bad for those abused need adopted animals. More times than not my work officially made my anxiety about dogs even worse, their kennel stress leads them to aggressive behavior, they get jealous of each other because they aren't walked enough. Thank god I was not a dog volunteer. The cats were good. But sometimes there were those wicked cats.
Same here, I like those kind of natural world documentaries too. I would have probably not liked to see that that elephant clip. Related to what I said about handling the commercial I mentioned, sometimes if its really overwhelming because I have to grit my teeth sometimes but I know to move on. When I mentioned it could handle that, it's mostly because I've seen that commercial a few times on TV. At least the first couple seconds that is, I basically understand the message and could do fine with it. Still wouldn't prefer seeing though.
I used to volunteer at an animal shelter too, but it ended up getting me away from people at lot and got me anxious around other people. I don't volunteer there now mostly because I want to interact with people now. I still like animals though and I enjoy getting along with them.
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15 Mar 2012, 5:09 am
