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The Blue House Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

A New York Times story that ran in 2001 about a homeless dog wandering around a suburban part of New York City, struck a chord with me. The boy was wounded by his loss, just as the homeless dog was wounded when his owner died. I don’t need a leash, he stays right next to me,” Cody says.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18). Would intelligent beings riot over the out come of a soccer game? In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Smoke, eat, and drink themselves to death?