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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. Avoiding first-person pronouns, vivisectors report that cardiac arrest 'was produced' in puppies, rather than 'We gave puppies cardiac arrest'" (118). "By Instead, they hide behind passive verbs.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. After a waterfall display the performer may sit on a rock, his eyes following the falling water.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

In the list of famous step-mothers one might learn about real Angelina Jolie – Labrador Lisha, which does not have any puppies, but has already become fosterer for 30 different animals including a baby hippo and porcupine, and now she takes care of three tiger cubs.

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