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Word: pets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyone who would refuse to have their pet spayed or neutered because of not wishing to deny them the "joy" of raising a family, must have cat litter or dog kibble for brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 6, 1975 | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...member of human society. Some 50 ways in which they earn their living are well documented, including guiding, guarding, detecting, rescuing, protecting, defending, often spending and giving their lives in the service of mankind. And millions of families are able to sleep securely knowing that even the smallest family pet will warn of intrusion. Surely they earn their dog food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 6, 1975 | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...have three dogs, not by choice; all were abandoned by that superior creation-man. While the industries involved in pandering to maladjusted pet owners shovel in the money, rendering plants shovel out the carcasses of the have-nots as ground fertilizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 6, 1975 | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...failed to depict the average pet owner. You failed to give equal time to the countless thousands of animals mistreated or abandoned yearly to face starvation. You mentioned only the human aspects of communicable diseases, but disregarded the untold suffering and painful deaths of diseased animals who placed their faith and reliance on ignorant or disinterested owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 6, 1975 | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...well as showing the U.S. pet owner as an idiot in a world riddled with starvation, you should present both sides. I have given a home to two abandoned dogs. They don't drink vodka; they don't sit at my table; they have no pedigrees, Marie Antoinette doghouses or caniscopes. In this crazy world-this planet governed by greed, indifference and masochism-I treasure my dogs as the last consistent remnants of love and compassion to grace my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 6, 1975 | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

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