Animals think different and act different. What a lot of people don't realize is that we are animals. In the end, animals are still living creatures just like us. Some might breathe different, but they are still breathing. We treat animals like we treated each other just one hundred years ago.
For an example, a lion is in its own place in Africa. Somebody takes the lion and puts it in a zoo in America. The lion escapes the zoo and is shot and killed. Doesn't that sound a lot like slavery, which we fought to abolish. We kill an animal for killing a human, which is meat, but we feed them, and they were meant to eat meat. We give people awards for killing the most fish or bringing in the largest deer. An animal's instinct to kill is like our instinct to kill.
"If we went a step further and granted dogs rights of personhood, they would be afforded additional protection against exploitation. Puppy mills, laboratory dogs and dog racing would be banned for violating the basic right of self-determination of a person." I totally agree with this statement. We should just let animals free and live how they were meant to. If an animal want to live with a human and the human is feeling the same way, let it be, but voluntary. Keeping a living this as property is wrong. They deserve rights.
