Pets their roles in our lives and our views of other animals How our treatment of companion animals over the past 60 years reflects their growing role as persons in our society services rights clothing sleep in our beds projecting human needs onto animals medical care personify animals as entertainment humanized foods sacrifice time money for animals humanize their emotions Why do we think of some animals as pets Whats the definition of a pet What does it mean to consider an animal a pet companionship caretaking animal dependence on us control of the animal in some form we get something out of it protection status entertainment work Sanders The everyday dog owner bring out in public with a dog has many parallels to an adult who is with a child owners sometimes needed to employ explanations when their pets misbehaved in public descriptive study basic thought process but emotional owners describe human like emotions but with very simple thoughts excusion tactics pets and owners understand each other cid 127 What does pet keeping teach us about other animals About 60 of american population currently keeps pets 74 million companion cats in the US 70 million dogs where does dog fit on Serpell s axis or Arluke s sociozoologic scale top right quadrant Keller did study on your thinking of animals dominionistic why are people throwing birthday parties for their cats socioeconomic status of owner money spent why do they do it do they have children do research where does it fit on serpells axis or arlukes sociozoologic scale research on fracture healing either see as useful animal or someone relate to either care about dog or care about research tool vs pet justifications always been a tool bred for this research going to be euthanized Where does this dog fit on serpells axis or arlukes sociozoologic scale Which would be more acceptable in our society the cat birthday or this dog research Why ON EXAM based on Henry and Pulcino s study which factors are correlated with a person s acceptance nonacceptance with the use of animals in biomedical research gender male female perceived degree of harm to the animal perceived benefit of the research cost benefit people s history of having childhood pets does NOT correlate support nonsupport of research but DID correlate with feelings towards pets Picture of dog roasted for dinner reactions in US project their own dogs so upsetting disturbing in China might be more acceptable why people wouldn t want to eat this dog see dogs as companion animals growing up humanize dogs seeing its face seeing it during the process don t normal see it as a living animal and then as food Relations to horse slaughter debate I kept this horse as a pet and want to treat it humanely in the end but logistic problem expensive to euthanize them extremely painful cremated etc horses have overlap between pet and food and utilitarian transportation races entertainment yet also emotional ties built with rider perceived harm of horses cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127