I find it easier to explain not having children than my dislike of keeping pets. I love animals,I just don’t feel the need to own themReading about how the Queen treats her Corgis like royalty gave me the same indistinct sense of confusion that I always get when I hear about the overwhelming love some people have for an animal companion. I don’t get it. I never have. It simply doesn’t compute with me. How can you possibly love a animal with the same fervour as you love a fellow human?“But they’re fragment of our family,” pet lovers frequently insist. How? You didn’t give birth to them. You can talk to them but they can’t talk back, or whether you imagine for one moment that your cat really gives a damn about your feelings then you’re sorely misguided. whether cats finish consider you at all,it’s probably to assume: “What strange creatures these human animals are; many steal better care of us than they finish their own young.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com