Are We Worthy of Our Animals? The Thorny Ethical Issues of Pet Ownership Although we humans need to have animals in our lives, there are some thorny ethical questions that come up around keeping companion animals, or pets, as they used to be called. They are ambassadors from the world of nature, here to remind…
The Blessing of Touch Touch is another quality that characterizes most of our relationships with the companion animals in our lives. Read Part 1 and Part 2 We live in a very low-touch society. Touch is generally permitted to us in very few of our relationships under very circumscribed conditions– with small children, with our…
See Part 1 Unconditional Love and Acceptance We routinely throw these words around when talking about a relationship with an animal. But what do they really mean? They mean that we are loved and accepted, no matter what. There are no conditions placed on the love. It’s not conditional on whether you’ve been well behaved,…
Human beings have kept companion animals for thousands of years. They are the animals taken out of the wild–either recently or long ago– that we invite into our homes, our families, our lives. They can be dogs, cats, birds, pigs, rabbits, small mammals, reptiles, or fish. We do not join our lives for reasons of…
Now I tend to keep it simple by taking two daily walks with my dog, Roxie, and with all the guest dogs that board with HousePETality. But here is a video of an alternative approach to exercising your dog that clearly involves a smart dog, a persistent owner and a great relationship between them.
This is my blog. I know. I’m a dog and dog’s aren’t supposed to blog. But, just as God is Dog spelled backwards, blog is…golb spelled backwards. Oh, nevermind. You have to admit, at least, that blog almost rhymes with dog. So there you have it. I will write whatever matters to me– subjects like…
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