Pets! Pets! Pets and Wildlife! Say It Proud & Loud

Doomestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be rebranded as “companion animals” while owners should be known as “human carers”… Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as “free-living”, the academics including an Oxford professor suggest.

The call comes from the editors of the Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication devoted to the issue.…