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Pets Aren't People!

Zoe Strimpel questions why so many of us now seem to think and behave as if there is no difference between pets and people.

Zoe Strimpel examines why so many people have become passionately obsessed with dogs. "We have moved," she writes, "beyond affection, beyond dog-is-person's-best-friend love, into a passionate confusion whereby we now seem to think and feel that there is literally no difference between pets and people."

She examines the roots of our attachment to dogs and argues that we need to re-discover a more "pet-appropriate variety" of love in relation to our pooches.

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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9 minutes

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Sun 1 Nov 2020 08:48

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  • Fri 30 Oct 2020 20:50
  • Sun 1 Nov 2020 08:48

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