Hey, I bought and paid for my two kittehs - I OWN THEM. I have receipts and their papers to prove it! ;o)
Posted on 04/28/2011 11:07:30 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
'Pet' an insult to animals, academics say Fiona MacRae From: Herald Sun April 29, 2011 12:00AM Increase Text SizeDecrease Text SizePrintEmail Share Add to DiggAdd to del.icio.usAdd to FacebookAdd to KwoffAdd to MyspaceAdd to NewsvineWhat are these? Academics say that rather than being a term of endearment, "pets" is an insult to the animals concerned and their owners, who should be known as "human carers". Source: Herald Sun IN a statement that gives a whole new meaning to animal rights, leading academics have called for pets to be renamed "companion animals". They say that rather than being a term of endearment, "pets" is an insult to the animals concerned and their owners, who should be known as "human carers".
Editors of a new journal devoted to animal ethics, including an Oxford University theologian, also want the terms "pests" and "vermin" to be dropped. Wild animals, meanwhile, would be referred to as "free-living" or "free-ranging".
Even innocuous phrases such as "sly as a fox" and "drunk as a skunk" are seen as an affront to animals.
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The only comment I have is that when you say someone is like an animal,....it insults an animal. Animals are being normal....a human is not. The human is being beneath what we expect of a human and that’s unfair to the animal.
I let you have that to build your self esteem Glock and I thought we were having Smores tonight...
Smores? Hell, we’re slow smoking Miss Piggy. Got slaw?
What?
Your sister told me something different.
But then, being schizophrenic, you might have confessed to something else, pretending to be your sister, or maybe you are your sister.
R.
:-)
Warning, your Mother just told me she just called the SPCA. something about wild pig and Trichinosis..
Whoa, I just had a Bates Motel moment.
No wait. I’m not schizophrenic. I’m dyslexic.
What? Ewok the blue healer pet could have a sister. Hell, he could have, well, lots of sisters.
Wait, what? I didn’t do it, no one saw me do it, there’s no way you can prove anything!
Right, like she’d turn in my bro...
*shrug*
I’ll worry about insulting my pet dog when she understands more English than “walk” or “treat.”
Overall, she seems much happier as a pet than she would as a wild or even a free-ranging animal.
Pete’s Pig smuggling days are numbered. Old Tork has been buying smoked Turkey legs from Safeway for the past 4 years. I feel like those Vi-Kings in the “What’s in yo Wallet” ads when I’m I chowing down on one of those 3# drumsticks...
Oh man. Turkeys have feelings too... what were you thinking?
Some of these drumsticks are so big they had to have competed in Sumo-Turkey wrestling... and I was just trying to stay on subject. and did you notice I lost my newest tag line to the Ewoks which are 1/2 animal and 2/3 liquid mercury
Do you realize that this thread has exceeded in one day what the Nascar thread had accomplished in 3...
Dude! It exceeded all that in that I’ve remembered to pick my drivers.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Hey, I bought and paid for my two kittehs - I OWN THEM. I have receipts and their papers to prove it! ;o)
I have a cat that likes to be petted, but I don’t call her pet. Mostly I call her dummy.
They’re beautiful!
Yah, but did you pick your drivers?
Came very close to leaving them all in, but I changed a few.
I think, was pretty tired when I did it.
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