Re: Warning about "rarer" colours

[Julian and Jackie]

a gangi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

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>But we are NOT sayign they shoudl be promoted as rare and exotic- only
>promoted as "valueable- like any other animal".  If vets and courts and
>lanlordes look at pets by their cost, then we will never have the respect
>for small animals that cats/dogs get if we dont make them valuable.

But this is the cultural problem I was getting at. I know from what has
happened in the UK with "rare" or "exotic" prices for gerbils that it is
the animals that suffer. If animal welfare laws do not recognise the
inherent value of an animal, then the law needs to be changed. I am sure
there are people in the US already campaigning for greater animal
rights.





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Julian

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