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A Changing World: Animal Rights, Dog Rights,
Dog Ownership, Pet Ownership,
Cruelty To Animals, Animal Abuse
So many animals have virtually no rights - they're cooped up,
barely able to move, soon to be slaughtered. On the other hand,
many of us love the animals who live with us.
Here, a big question: what rights should animals have?
For instance, should they have the right to choose where they live?
Whose
Dog is it, Anyway? -
On Pets, Ownership, and
Slavery
The dog next door wants to move in. He's been hungry.
He's sometimes cold. He's left alone, sometimes for days, in the barn. We have two dogs,
nine cats (we live in the country) - and a warm house where our pets
are welcome. We'd like to give him a home. But he belongs to the farm
next door.
He shows up whenever he's let loose - comes, peers
in the windows, curls up for hours in a wind-sheltered corner near
our door, waiting for us to relent and let him in. With us
he has hope - because we've often let him in, including overnight.
It started in summer when he was just a pup. We took
care of him for a couple of weeks when the people next door went away
on a holiday. We offered, and his owners were glad we were there to look
after him. But I think they already worried that our care would spoil
him.
But that was in summer, when the kids were home from school. He had
a lot to keep him with his owners.
Early in fall, he often came over, but would race home when the school
bus went by.
Recently, he's stayed on our property and just watched it. It's cold
out. The kids don't spend time outside, but he's stuck there.
Winter is coming. It's been here, with the temperature down to 17 below.
It's mild again now, but won't stay that way.
Anyway, that's not the question. The question is: who should have the
right to decide where the dog lives? The dog or the owners?
The question behind the question: do
we have the right to own dogs and cats, or should they be allowed to
make some decisions on their own - like where they want to live?
And you may have still another question: how do things turn out? Does he manage to come live with us - or not?
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December 17, 2006
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God is wrong, it said, because of how he was with animals.
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Animal Rights, Dog Rights, Dog Ownership.
The dog next door wants to move in. Whose dog is it anyway?
Is Pet Ownership Cruelty To Animals, Animal Abuse?
ANIMAL RIGHTS versus HUMAN RIGHTS
DOG RIGHTS:
what are these?
no cruelty to animals? no animal abuse?
but just what is cruelty to animals and animal abuse?
HUMAN RIGHTS:
do these include pet ownership, dog ownership?
Whose dog is it, anyway?
Pets Ownership,
Dog Ownership, Slavery.
Human rights versus animals rights.
How to decide
what is ethical?
Animal Rights
Some animals are so incredibly vibrantly alive - and so empathic. Everything in me goes: how can we deny them so many rights? How can we say, dog rights, pet rights, animal rights stop at brutality? Anything else is optional.
We have the legal right, if we own them, to end their lives at any time, to eat them.
And a hugely murky area is pet ownership, dog ownership, cat ownership. I own cats and dogs - and in a world where over 1 billion humans go hungry, these animals eat well, go to the vet, are taken care of. So one part of me goes: what am I doing, concerned with animal rights when there is world hunger, war, and so on?
My answer is just that I care. I care about animals and animal rights. It comes from feeling loved by some animals, which sparks my own love.
Elsa
June 20 2009
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publishing house - FlufferDuff Impressions 2009
ANIMAL RIGHTS:
does this include the right to life? to what extent should it include the right to life?
and what about the right to choose with whom to live?
HUMAN RIGHTS:
do these include full pet ownership, animal ownership, dog ownership?
if now, what should the limits be - should they be if there is cruelty to animals, animal abuse?
or should there be more limits than that?
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