I think this is just a guy thing really.
Not ALL guys of course but it’s a normal part of the male spectrum to not necessarily curl up into a ball and bawl ones eyes out at the death of a pet.
For example my own dearly departed father during his life was a huge animal lover and would also fucking hate to hear news stories about animal or child abuse on the news and couldn’t figure out why or how people could be such sick fucks to do those sorts of things.
Yet when the last of his beloved hunting dogs our pet beagle became old and was riddled with cancerous tumors all over him and particularly on his backside and maybe his undercarriage/stomach/belly area my dad went outside to his dog pen and unmercifully/mercifully proceeded to put the dog down with a long series of gunshots (not because he was a sadist or gun nut but to make sure the job was done and the dog’s life + suffering was properly ended).
Perhaps my dad secretly went somewhere and cried about having to do this later on but I don’t personally remember witnessing him shed a single tear.
Perhaps if he never did cry about having to put the dog down maybe he’d rationalized to himself that the dog had a long and good life (which admittedly he did for a dog) and so it was ok and thus moral to give him such a seemingly brutal and violent final send off?
Ultimately I’ll probably never know the answer to this question but at the time I was dismayed as a child to why my father would do this to his beloved pet when he could’ve simply taken him to the vet for an arguably more peaceful end to which my mother reminded me that my old man grew up as a child brutally poor so couldn’t conceive of spending the money for the shot from a needle to put the dog down when some standard and probably cheaper buckshot would do.
Anyway I’m sure any numale soy cucks of IT or Reddit
lurking along who may stumble upon and read my post may be horrified at my old man’s actions but hey that’s just how a “normal” country boy in the 80’s or early to mid 90’s did things.
