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A Point of View: Pets Aren't People!

Pets Aren't People!

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Zoe Strimpel examines why we've become so passionately obsessed with dogs.

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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