Best Friends

That Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola? Her boyfriend has been isolated. Her dog has been killed. Not caged and isolated for testing. Killed.

"It's only a dog," right? I suppose some people really do think that way, like whoever abandoned the twenty puppies the moose-hunter found the other day, or whoever dumped on the highway all the dogs we've had. But for Real, Actual Human beings, not just those with mere human DNA but actual souls, the love you feel for your pup can be downright maternal.