My People and Their Pets

Best in Show competition in Rutland, UK, 1990. (Tom Stoddart via Getty Images)
In observance of National Pet Month, one curmudgeon contemplates what it means to raise living things.
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As you are surely aware, May is National Pet Month. Don’t ask me who decided May is National Pet Month; ironically, for a celebration of a relationship between master and captive, it’s hard to figure out who’s in charge of this thing. But a number of websites assure me that what I’ve just proclaimed is true, and I always trust what the internet tells me.
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