Centrally: (1) Pets are not the products of human reproduction, and so we cannot appeal to our interests in having children or rights to bodily autonomy (etc.) to help justify having pets, and (2) for ...

Ours is a pet-loving culture. Researchers spend a lot of time exploring what has become known as “human-animal interactions,” and the pet industry spends a lot of money promoting what it ...

Pets are also often constrained in their daily movements, sometimes crated or caged, and regularly kept indoors – always at the whim of their human owners. Making the case against pets. Shutterstock ...

In recent years, the relationship between humans and their pets has been changing. To wit, people increasingly see their pets (i.e., cats and dogs) as core family members. This shift makes sense ...

In turn, 32% of those who say their pets are part of their family but not as much as a human member say there’s too much emphasis on pets’ well-being. Just 6% of those who see their pets the same as a ...