no more pets

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Animal prison camp" should do the trick. "Daddy, can we go to the animal
prison camp today?"

It's why zebras are the emblematic "zoo" animals.

JL

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 8:56 AM -0400 5/10/11, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> >David Barnhart wrote
> >>  I just saw a little story on CNN about the political incorrectness of
> the
> >>  term _pet_ meaning an animal kept as a companion.
> >
> >There is a short video segment available at the CNN website that might
> >contain the material that David Barnhart viewed. Below is a link:
> >
> >Is the word 'pet' politically incorrect?
> >Added On May 10, 2011
> >Some animal rights activists want to replace the term "pet" with
> >"animal companion." CBC's Colleen Jones reports.
> >
> >
> http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/05/09/dnt.pet.politically.incorrect.CBC
> >Shortened link
> >http://goo.gl/RkwUS
> >
> >The report refers to the Journal of Animal Ethics as the source of the
> >following suggestions: Replace "pet" with "animal companion." Call a
> >raccoon dining from the garbage can of a house a "free living animal"
> >and not a "pest." Replace "wildlife" with "free range" or "free
> >living."
>
> I know "zoo" or "zoological gardens" is also incorrect, but I forget
> what we're supposed to call them instead.  Maybe "unfree living
> non-companion animal forced enclosure"?
>
> --LH, human associate of two feline former pet companions
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