Why do zoos always fail? I remember a phrase from another zoo website -- the person said "zoos always lose". And that seems to be the case -- judges and people with power are just too biased, bigoted, and anti-zoo. It seems that, before a zoo has even walked into a court room, they're perceived as guilty / convicted.
@Zoo50, that is why I think that getting coordinated locally is so very important.
If any of us wanted to try that, though, then we would have to start now in order to really benefit from it in an entire generation. It can take literally a generation to build up a strong enough local community that you could manage something like raising money to get someone a team of attorneys on someone's side after some obsessed anti-zoophile cop busted him without a warrant while he was tied with his Rottweiler.
Cases that are genuinely like that only come along every once in a blue moon, but when they do, there needs to be someone there to bring in money for a legal counsel and then maybe pursue an appeal, which can be expensive.
On organizing locally, I also think that it's a big deal to get people coming out locally. It's cowardice that got us into the mess that we are currently in, and we can no longer afford letting ourselves be intimidated by the sort of cucks that got us into our present situation.
And we need to start getting young zoos to come out BEFORE they have gotten invested in an animal. Nothing paralyzes a person like the potential loss of their spouse, and not being out to anybody in their lives at all just leaves them utterly isolated from anyone that is not also a zoophile. To those that are in this situation and are therefore afraid to come out, I would challenge them to just recognize how badly they shit the bed by even getting an animal while still closeted.
If your family already know, your friends already know, and your community already know, then you would have time to get at least some of them convinced that you actually genuinely love your animal, and you'd have family, friends, and maybe even your religious congregation ready to help support you if you ever did get into trouble, which if you truly had that much support you probably wouldn't. You would have people prepared to come claim prior ownership of your animal to circumvent compulsory sterilization, spring for your bail, and fund your legal defense and if need be appeal because that's what family and friends do.
And those that are not willing to come out should probably just not get an animal at all. I would put it to them this way: if you truly don't believe that your community and those nearest and dearest to you would not try to protect you or your animal, knowing that you are a zoophile, then should you really try owning an animal at all? Think ahead. Think about whether or not you are in a community where you and your animal would be safe before you get your animal.
And if you are not safe where you are, words of advice from someone that escaped a homophobic hellhole: move the fucking hell out, and start over somewhere that you can find people that are at least rational. Stop clinging to your attachment to toxic people.
I say that those that are currently non-owners, if anything, ought to take the lead in coming out. We should consider it our personal duty to find out whether or not we can trust our family and community, and if we do not, then we need to consider our options, which for some of us might include finding a job in some other city and starting over.
Guarantee that you and your animal will have a system of social support before getting one. Come out first, find out who if anyone you can trust, and only then move forward if there is indeed anyone you can trust. If you do not absolutely trust your family and your friends with your freedom and your animal's life, then either move, or just don't get one.
We need to move away from the pathetic cuck philosophy of "close the blinds and hide," which I argue is why we are in this mess to begin with, and move instead toward "Find out if you can trust the people around you with your animal's life before you even start."
I can boil it down to a simple slogan: "Be out, or don't get one!"
