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Tessa Lena's avatar

Oh, by the way, I do think that keeping animals in a city apartment is utterly unnatural. Keeping people in city apartments is not particularly natural, either, but at least people can leave the apartment. "Pets" in the modern sense is a very new concept, it has existed for barely a century. Prior to that, in villages, "house" cats were free roaming, and dogs were somewhat free roaming. Also fed very minimally but free roaming. What I find abusive is depriving the "house" animals of their sexuality. Like, what fun is it to live one's life as a castrated living being? Not much fun, and "security" is not worthy compensation. And I do think that they is done to animals is eventually done to people (see, The Chip). Anyway, just thought I would add that!

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Igor Chudov's avatar

I have a dog sleeping on a couch next to my bed right now. We live in a suburban home with a fenced backyard, so he is free to go outside in the fenced area. They are not human, so questions of freedom and agency should not be considered from a human centric viewpoint. A pretty good life overall. My dog even has a Twitter account @TotallyCanc3l3d , which he used to post vaccine-related materials when I was suspended ;-)

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