On "Pets" and "Its"
Animal Person
MARCH 18, 2010
All animals except the dog are called "it" (I did a little experiment to see what would happen). Nobody stopped me" brings me to the parents, who were all omnivores (though there were two ex-vegetarians) and who were all thoroughly unaware of the language the children were using to refer to animals. I'm a terrible fiction writer.
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