Animal Person

JULY 8, 2009

Here's a Gray Matter for you (or maybe not): A humane society near me is doing a cat- and dog-adoption promotion this month. You can adopt a dog for $75 rather than $100, and if you adopt a cat for $50 you can get a second one for half the price. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Here are some of my favorite quotes: " Companion anima l reduces a dog, cat, or other nonhuman to the role of companion. Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Chance is so close!

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

When I informed Dave of what Emily and I were doing, he reminded me that some frogs are fatally poisonous to cats. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. So much for the predator instinct. Translation?

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