“If you balk at the idea that dogs could be bred like pigs, I’m sorry to disabuse you. Dogs and pigs alike are treated as breeding livestock. The animals are made to have as many young as possible. The babies… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“I’m focusing here on dogs because this is where almost all of the research and exposés lead us. But of course puppies aren’t the only pet animal being bred and brokered and sold for profit; they are just the most… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Yet still, beneath all the marketing and social construction of attitudes and desires and shopping habits, there is a deep yearning for connection. The… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“There is a tendency to oversimplify the issue of spay/neuter and to promote the essential benefits without recognizing that our animals do suffer some… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“A common misconception is that pets have easy lives. They don’t have to do any work to find food and shelter or to protect… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“I know that market value is a repulsive accounting of somebody’s worth, and many of us would be unable to put a monetary value… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“If you balk at the idea that dogs could be bred like pigs, I’m sorry to disabuse you. Dogs and pigs alike are treated… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Emotional attachments to and functions of animals in human families are highly variable — and not always positive. Some family pets are surrogate children,… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Often we jump to the conclusion that a dog or cat who doesn’t like to be petted is cranky or unfriendly, but this isn’t… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Some of this diversity in animal feeling is surely related to enculturation (we in the United States tend to love dogs and be disgusted… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“I recently asked a veterinarian friend how he thought about our relationship to companion animals. “They are slaves—chattel slaves,” he said breezily. I was… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Massive round-ups of strays have been replaced by daily intake and elimination, the large crate full of dead dogs replaced by a steady trickle… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“I’m focusing here on dogs because this is where almost all of the research and exposés lead us. But of course puppies aren’t the… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Animals are not genderless objects. “He” and “she” are vast improvements over “it.” “Who” is more fitting than “that” or “which.” (So, it isn’t… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
