Free The Animals!!

[Mr VJP]

FREE THE ANIMALS!!!

 

Pet emancipation and eventual suffrage portends a shift in the electoral patterns of America's by-the-numbers political system.

 

It is estimated that there are more cats than dogs in the USA by pet ownership statistics. While it is difficult to know the number of stray dogs versus cats, an intuitive guess is that there are more cats than dogs. Observation of strays seems to point to a higher free cat population. When was the last time you saw a dog out and about, not tethered to its owner? Stray dogs were once more common but are no longer due to stricter leash laws and fear of physical and emotional separation on the part of the pooper scooper wielder and thirty-pound-sack-of-feed dispenser.

By their very nature cats would be able to survive independently. They are freedom loving beings with an aristocratic air about them. It is often observed that cats own their keepers rather than the opposite, despite the protestation of many of those who empty the kitty litter box and open the tuna can.

 

It is not difficult to guess the likely voting patterns of dogs vs cats based on psychology and behavior. Dogs are more servile and dependent. In the wild they hunt in packs. They are a collectivist bunch. Dogs are indiscriminate in which butt they will sniff. Are they not natural born leftists and democrats? It remains to be determined what the voting patterns of tropical fish, horses, or cockatoos will be. I suspect that ferrets may turn out to be the wild card.

 

"Although Mr. Grimm begins “Citizen Canine” writing that pets are “becoming more like people in our society”, he ultimately rejects the notion — embraced by some advocates of animal rights — of conferring “personhood” on animals. But not because he has problems with this language or with the implications of such arguments. He rejects it because, he says, we need animals “to remind us of who we are and where we came from”: “When we turn cats and dogs into people, we lose the animal part of ourselves.”

 

This article is an interesting read regarding society's push to give animals "Rights".

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/david-grimms-citizen-canine-looks-at-an-evolving-status.html?_r=0

 

Edited February 7, 2015 by Mr VJP