Would you kill your pet if ordered to by the gov't?

[JackiePlace]

I read in the news this morning that at the beginning of the Covid crisis the gov't considered ordering the culling of all domestic cats in order to prevent the spread of Covid. This idea was later abandoned after it was proven that cats couldn't transmit Covid to humans.
AIBU to think that this would have caused a mass uprising? We are a nation of animal lovers, after all. Or would people have accepted it as they did some of the other draconian regulations (not visiting dying relatives, etc).

www.lbc.co.uk/news/govt-cat-cull-covid-pandemic/

I suspect that lots of people who say online that they wouldn't have their pet culled, actually would have done at the time. When you consider that amount of people that couldn't wait to report people for going out for a walk twice a day, or not wearing a mask in a shop etc I've no doubt there would have been plenty of pet owners taking their cat to vets to be put down and posting pictures on Facebook of all their neighbours who refused to do as they were told.

Absolutely not, though I'd have been prepared to keep them indoors ... mainly, TBH, because of the risk they could have been at from the type who considered every diktat written in stone

They'd have had to have killed me first. My cats are my family.

There was so much irrational behaviour at the time, I’m sure many would have queued up, or worse, tried to kill their pets themselves. Others would have snitched on neighbours or taken it upon themselves to kill other people’s pets.

Never forget some of the truly crazy and nasty behaviours we saw.

But, true to previous media/government form, this is a great dead cat story (pun intended) to distract from the rest of the leaked conversation.

I don't have a cat, but I find myself very relieved this never happened. Things would've got even more batshit and unpleasant.

This all just shows the gross incompetence of the government, for pity ' s sake do not vote Tory at the next election.We did need some sort of lockdown though before we had vaccines or a lot more people would have died so don't let the Telegraph' s anti - lockdown rhetoric blind you

I think I would take my pet to the police station first and tell them I'm going to harm my pet and see if they lock me up.

I’d happily kill anyone who tried to harm any of my animals, goats, pig, cow, horses, chicken or sheep, let alone the ones that reside inside the house.

People lost it. Not all but mn generally did

Never in a million years

I wouldn't have, but I also had pet chickens when bird flu was a topic of media hysteria and they lived to tell the tale.

Some people went completely fucking mental during first lockdown though. Screaming you weren't allowed to walk your dog more than once a day / for an hour a day, or sit on a park bench.

I don't doubt that some people would have complied, but fear can apparently make people do almost anything the government tells them too. Scary really.

I guess if it was very clear that it was essential to save human lives I would. But it would hurt, a lot.

Not a chance. Both my cats are house cats and I’d have hidden them Anne frank style in a secret room if necessary.

Absolutely no way, I was literally shouting at the tv this morning! I unfortunately have no children, my cat is my baby.

Because those who urged caution or even just wanted to discuss the long term effects on society were branded as stupid, selfish 'killers'.

I remember being called selfish because I said I needed to work to pay my rent and bills! I was self employed in an industry severely affected by lockdown, and fell through the cracks of government support. Funnily enough those same people weren't keen on the idea of personally paying my rent for me.

Happy to take my livelihood away from me, not happy to cover the costs of their own wishes

Should have shielded, due to underlying health conditions, I certainly couldn't afford that. I avoided homelessness by the skin of my teeth, in part because I worked when I should have self isolated and when I should have shielded. I don't regret that decision.

Thank you for sharing, I wasn’t aware of this, so tragic

snigger at pussy hole. Sorry.

Not a chance

I think quite a lot of people would have if ordered to, thankfully most would have refused to kill a member of their family. I would have been in the latter, no way would I kill one of my pets because I was told to and as PP have pointed out, they could just be put into lockdown if it was a risk of them catching/spreading it.

Yes - I can remember my mam telling me that they had their spaniels destroyed because they were told they "would be frightened by the bombs".

It transpired later that this was a govt ploy because they didn't want people sharing food with their animals and there may not have been enough for pets as well.

Never. I'd hide him away and I'd attack anyone who tried to take him.

People lost it. Not all but MN generally did

Correct once again, Marsha - some of the threads and comments on here were beyond parody

Project fear worked so well on my elderly mother she is still frightened and barely leaves the house so Johnson, Hancock and the rest of the cabal can go fuck themselves

Very rarely is a dead cat story really about dead cats.
But if this is the story you're talking about today, then it's worked and YABU.

(and it's coincidentally, yet again, proved the 50% rule)

Your guns would be useless against your government's advanced weapons and personnel.