You'd complain if I posted porn pictures, wouldn't you?

A friend of mine (CraftyMom) posted on her FB today a picture of Morpheus saying "What if I told you, you can be against animal cruelty, without posting pictures of dying animals?"

Someone replied basically saying how else can you raise awareness, loads of people don't have a clue what's going on, and she'll still post those pictures and CraftyMom is welcome to unfriend her if she doesn't want to see it kiss hug kiss hug kiss hug < / passive aggressive>.

You can easily post a link, saying "this is why I'm against animal cruelty. Warning: Contains graphic images."
It's bloody jarring to be scrolling through your News Feed, doobeedoo, and OH GOD WHAT IN THE EVER LOVING HELL IS THAT SWEET BABY JEEBUS! I've seen that kind of thing in my own News Feed, and I'm not joking when I say I literally dry heave, and on really bad days I spend most of the day trying not to cry.

I know there's animal cruelty. It's something that I'm very against and I try to combat it when I can. But saying that posting those kinds of pictures is the only way to raise awareness is like saying that posting pictures of the brutal genital mutilation African teenaged girls go through is the only way to raise awareness.

Rather post a link, and let your friends decide if they want to click it or not. Don't shove it into their faces.

PS that's a picture of my dog, sleeping. Hard life, innit...