From Ingrid Newkirk People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Washington DC, US
Eddie Clutton makes excellent points in condemning “fur babyism”, which reduces a dog or cat to a toy, accessory or infant. They aren’t any of these things – they are individuals of a species different from our own, in ways that we ignore to their detriment, e.g. crating them for our convenience, flattening their faces for a “look” so they can barely breathe, declawing them to save our furniture or reprimanding them for natural behaviours (6 December, p 22).
