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ASPCA: Pets Assuming Heavy Burden in Trump Era

The Trump presidency is stressing people out, and it's taking its toll on their pets.

A new report released by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Friday reveals that dogs and cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and even fish in the US and around the world are suffering an unprecedented burden at the hands of their emotionally distraught owners since Donald Trump was elected President last November.

"People are under a lot of stress these days, and unfortunately it's being passed on to their pets, who are acting sort of like shock absorbers," ASPCA spokesman John Schick said.

According to statistics included in the study, the numbers of domestic animals being petted bald by their owners has tripled since this time last year while spine-bowing - a condition in which an animal's spinal column is permanently bent as a result of excessive stroking - have more than doubled over the same period.

Even more troubling, experts estimate "likely hundreds, possibly thousands" of unreported, inadvertent pet deaths linked to Trump stress have occurred.

"I can understand it," one woman self-diagnosed with 'Post Trump Stress Disorder' remarked. "I come home after hearing about Trump pulling out of the Paris Agreement or exchanging childish insults with a nuclear armed psychopathic dictator, and I just grab my kitty and start to rub. And rub. And rub."

"I rub my sweet, sweet kitty all night without knowing it sometimes," the woman went on. "I rub him and rub him and rub him until, eventually I hear his cries, and seeing the blood, I put him down in guilt-stricken horror."

 
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