Yet another case of political correctness run amok.
In a joint UK-US demonstration of brain-flatulence in action, Oxford professor Rev. Andrew Linzey and Penn State Professor Priscilla Cohn, co-edit some such allegedly-scholarly work entitled The Journal of Animal Ethics.
In this erudite publication, it is argued that Fido and Puss-Puss no longer be referred to as "pets".
The Telegraph of London is reporting that instead, our beloved pets should be called “companion animals”, while we ignoramus human beings should be relegated to “human carers”.
But Wait... There's More.
Wild animals aren't wild animals anymore. From now on, these untamed and undomesticated (aka: wild) animals (aka: animals) should be referred to as ‘free-living’, ‘free-ranging’ or ‘free-roaming’ (aka: wild animals).
These geniuses also illuminate us with the obvious fact that “For most, ‘wildness’ is synonymous with uncivilised, unrestrained, barbarous existence. There is an obvious prejudgment here that should be avoided.”
Nothing quite as civilized as a man-eating lion or a man-eating crocodile or a man-eating tiger, is there?
And it doesn't end there.
We are also admonished to refrain from phrases such as “sly as a fox, “eat like a pig” or “drunk as a skunk” as they are all unfair to animals.
Hmmm...
To Profs Linzey and Cohn, my dogs could care less what words and phrases I use in regards to them.
Know why? Because they don't speak English. Or Spanish or Japanese or any of the various African Click languages.
They. Are. Animals. Get it?
Hey, they eat out of the garbage, drink from the toilet and pee in my backyard.
Being referred to as a "critter" is the least of their worries.
Dumping a steamer on my new and very expensive berber carpeting? THAT'S a problem.
I honest to God don't think Seanie Boy nor Sookie Sue will mind all that much if I happen to refer to my pets as... *wait for it*... pets.
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