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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

in today's New York Times, and I couldn't resist posting. I spent several years writing, daily, and often with shock, about how, for instance, the NYT- -the New York Times (OMG!!!!!)--would Fighting to maintain the integrity of the words humane, love, euthanasia or compassion, is also fighting for animals.

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

I went back to New York to the areas where I grew up and went to college and graduate school for a five-day weekend. When referring to cats, dogs and horses of unknown sex, the children would randomly assign sex, with the conventionally "prettier" animals being called "she." We do that with cats and dogs already, right?

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