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“I know that market value is a repulsive accounting of somebody’s worth, and many of us would be unable to put a monetary value on the worth of our animal companions, but the pet industry is willing and able. And animals are cheap. Lee Edwards Benning’s 1976 book The Pet Profiteers called out the industry, and consumers, for what could only be viewed as irresponsible buying habits. We are impetuous and unknowledgeable and spend more time choosing a pair of shoes than a pet. The reason for this may be quite straightforward: we can afford to be impetuous because animals are cheap. We choose our shoes more carefully because they are considerably more expensive.”
― Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
― Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
“Emotional attachments to and functions of animals in human families are highly variable — and not always positive. Some family pets are surrogate children, some are partners, some are tangible property, some are unpaid employees, some are scapegoats, and some are targets for emotional and physical or sexual violence.”
― Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
― Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
“A common misconception is that pets have easy lives. They don’t have to do any work to find food and shelter or to protect themselves from harm. But making life easy for captive animals doesn’t do them the great favor we might imagine. Providing them with appropriate challenges affords them opportunities to put their functional competencies to work, to engage in their full range of behaviors, and to engage their intelligence.1 And, in fact, various studies show that animals like to work and will engage in work for a reward, even if the reward is otherwise available for free. “Agency” has recently entered the vocabulary of animal welfare science and captures an important element of what animals in captivity need.”
― Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
― Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
