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What's in a Word? (And Does It Matter?) Do you say "animal control" or "animal care and control"? "Housebroken" or "housetrained"? "Unwanted" or "homeless"? The debate over whether to call pet owners "guardians" is only one in a long history of semantic squabbles in the animal protection movement. But are they really just squabbles, or do our arguments over language accelerate progress toward a more humane world?
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- Counting among his friends a monkey, a skunk, and a cockatiel named Ricky, George May has a lifetime of stories from his 46 years at the SPCA serving Erie County in Buffalo, New York
- A Wisconsin organization raises money through a collection of some of its best adoption success stories
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Perspective A shelter director in New Zealand talks about the most difficult part of humane work
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