jan gyn forwarded: >No matter how strange things get, there is always solace in knowing that >there is only one San Francisco. City officials were urged last week to >adopt the term "pet guardian'' instead of "pet owner" as part of the >emancipation of animals from their human overlords.
This is old news. In the animal rights (a-r) community (in the suburbs of which I reside although I have to take frequent trips to the business center), "pet" long ago became "companion animal," "owner" became "caretaker," and "brutal" is a no-no as the root is "brute," i.e. "beast" i.e. "animal." This PCness is just the tip of the iceberg. Residents of the a-r inner city find very little of this to be a joking matter. Gil NP: Captain Beefheart, "Low Yo Yo Stuff"
