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Can I read Disposable Animals : Ending the Tragedy of Throwaway Pets on EtoBox?
Disposable Animals : Ending the Tragedy of Throwaway Pets by Brestrup, Craig is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Disposable Animals : Ending the Tragedy of Throwaway Pets about?
Ten million healthy dogs and cats are killed in American animal shelters every year. Shelter officials defend this mass killing as necessary to prevent animal suffering and to provide a public service. More animals exist than homes to take them in so a painless death is considered a gift. They call this "euthanasia" or "putting to sleep." Disposable Animals challenges this approach to serving the needs of animals and asks if it may not sabotage animal welfare's message of respect for animal life. When those working for animal welfare say, on the one side, that animals' companions must take responsibility for their lives and that animals are not disposable commodities, but on the other side, they readily take those animals off the owners' hands and into already full shelters and kill some to make room for the new-Are they not contradicting themselves and in the process facilitating irresponsibility and the disposability syndrome? The heart of the book elaborates on this critique and offers sug gestions for alternative and uncompromised ways of caring for companion animals. Following this focus, Disposable Animals discusses other species and their treatment by our society and puts th
Who reads Disposable Animals : Ending the Tragedy of Throwaway Pets?
It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.
Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Brestrup, Craig
- Publisher
- Leander, Tex.: Camino Bay Books
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780965728591
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Social Science, Nature, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (9 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14