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If you think those are disturbing, wait until you hear about all those "helping animals" Youtube/TikTok channels.

Often, the people making the video placed the animal in very dangerous or painful situations/positions, and then "help" the animal for the views... and of course all the comments are about how great the person is for being kind hearted and helping - it's really sick.

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Not that I envy the ducklings thrown into the sewers for those videos, but I'd still rather be that duckling than a ferret into whom scientists have been stuffing colloidal tungsten to see if its LD50 differs from that in hamsters.

Pay attention next time you see these videos show up in your feeds - they'll probably change your mind once you realize what the game is.

These people glue things onto animals then rip them off, mutilate appendages, etc. Those videos of people "freeing" animals stuck in bear traps... how do you think they got into the trap?

So while lab testing on animals can be inhumane, it's not being done just for funsies like these videos are. The people making these videos are on an entirely different level of cruel.

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