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Dogtown: So Far So Good

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My hands-on experience is with small mammals/critters and cats. In many ways, they are probably easier to change because they don't have the same emotional baggage. Tags: dogtown dogs Best Friends. I learned a lot from this episode. I don't know much about dogs other than what I read.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. If they are "only" animals, if they are beasts which abstract not, then my comparison is a piece of sentimental foolishness. But chimpanzees can abstract. They have certainly committed no crimes.

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On "Wild Justice"

Animal Person

Just to be clear, this book deals with the nonhuman animals who are most like us: social vertebrates, and specifically social mammals (and there are a handful of references to cetaceans who behave similarly). Tags: Books Ethics Language. But as the frequently-invoked Darwin would say, those differences are of degree, not kind.

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