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More rights for pets – less for owners

Published: 13 September, 2010, 22:07
Edited: 15 September, 2010, 01:46


RT Photo / Irina Vasilevitskaya

After seven years of heated debates, Moscow authorities have at last come up with a draft law on keeping pets.

 
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Babeouf September 14, 2010, 19:09 quote
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Civilizations are judged historically on how they treat there weakest members. Now they can be judged on how they treat there weakest dependents. And that includes all of the animal companions that humans have created. The whole idea of 'Pets' negates any autonomy for the animal concerned. The Pet figures solely as vehicle for human satisfactions. But as anyone knows who has an animal(non human) sharing their living space it is the very independence they constantly assert that is among their greatest attractions of the live in other.

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