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What Is Animal care costs?
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Key Concepts in Animal care costs
Safety over perversion (in animal handling)
Theo Von introduces the concept that when dealing with a potentially lethal animal, ensuring its ejaculation to prevent aggression is a practical safety measure, not an act of perversion. He distinguishes this from general bestiality, arguing that the intent of self-preservation recontextualizes the act as purely functional.
What Experts Say About Animal care costs
- 1.A listener's uncle owns a bobcat that exhibits aggressive behavior, including snatching hats off people's heads.
- 2.To manage the bobcat's aggression, a specific, costly intervention is employed: it receives sexual servicing every month and a half.
- 3.This "servicing" for the bobcat costs $175 per session, highlighting the unique expenses associated with managing wild pets.
- 4.Theo Von explicitly states he does not condone humans pleasuring animals in general, referencing other controversial human-animal relationships.
- 5.He argues that if a dangerous animal (like a bobcat) poses a lethal threat if it doesn't ejaculate, then facilitating its ejaculation becomes an act of safety.
- 6.Theo Von maintains that this act, when done for self-preservation against a dangerous animal, should not be considered perverted but rather a necessary safety measure.