We have a guinea pig and a rabbit where I work. Bumble and Patch. They're confined, but have a nice hutch within an enclosure about eight feet square. They're healthy and well fed, and seem to get on well. The rabbit was found in an allotment, the guinea pig bought from some farm locally where he was boxed up with other guinea pigs who were bullying him, I suspect because of his haircut, he has naturally punk hair, several crowns all over his body.
We have 12 residents and 13 staff. The residents I can excuse because of their mental health problems. Out of the staff eight will feed Bumble and Patch, at least occasionally. Four are willing to clean them out, including me.
So that's roughly 75% of staff keeping them alive, 33% ensuring basic hygiene. Which means 25% of the staff don't care if Bumble or Patch starve to death, whilst living in filth.
I find this difficult to understand. I've asked the uncaring few what they think about this, even asking "you don't care do you?"
The people I respect most have replied directly with a negative (one). Others lie, or promise, or won't talk.
I dare say I'm coming across as a really awkward miserable sod in these blogs, but in reality I get on well with people, I'm a fairly genial miserable sod, I'm just increasingly baffled and angered by our species ignorance and cruelty towards others.