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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

The reason we need to save the gorillas and their habitats (it's a book on gorilla "conservation") is--and this is from memory so there could be more--that gorillas have thumbs, just like humans do. We need language that doesn't support a divide between "pet" animals and everyone else. We do that with cats and dogs already, right?

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