Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ States Try to Weigh Safety With Dog Owners’ Rights ” (news article, July 23): Any law that deems a dog as dangerous or vicious based on appearance, breed or phenotype is unfair and discriminatory. Richard Spencer Executive Director, Association of Pet Dog Trainers Greenville, S.C.,

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2007

,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Editorial Observer, July 30), is right: “The rate at which dogs are purchased and euthanized in this country is not a sign of our affection for them. Every time someone buys a puppy or kitten from a breeder, a shelter animal loses its chance at a home and pays with its life. It’s a sign of our indifference.”

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Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Do you agree with the New York Times ' William C. Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing? Is it the dogs that are at issue? Rhoden in " The Case for a Second Chance for Michael Vick? " And I'm not just referring to Vick here. Is Vick a special kind of creep for what he did? Is what he did like hunting?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows. Because his previous paragraph is: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs?

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

in today's New York Times, and I couldn't resist posting. A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. And then I read the "OMG!!!!!OED!!!!!LOL!!!!!"

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

When I bought it she hadn't had kibble in a very long time and she'd devour it only to vomit it back up five minutes later. I tried soaking it (I soak the dogs' kibble) but she wouldn't eat it. So for her Ami meal she can have about 10 kibble at a time, over a couple of hours. I'm going to give thanks to The Times by e-mail.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2007

See here for the New York Times story. Barbaro's killing is a case of euthanasia. Euthanasia is often called mercy killing, for obvious reasons: Its motive is mercy. It is done for the sake of the being who is killed, rather than for the sake of some other being or beings or of society generally.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Eight years later, Christian Cooper birding Central Park became a very different kind of media image: the black man falsely accused by a white woman of threatening her life after asking her to leash her dog in the Ramble, an area where unleashed dogs are not allowed. It was the same day George Floyd was killed.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Yet not mentioned is a simple step that will go a long way toward ensuring compliance with our already lax slaughterhouse requirements: Place video cameras throughout the kill process. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. The live feed can be monitored by any and all who are willing to watch.

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