Domestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be rebranded as “companion animals” while owners should be known as “human carers”, they insist.
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 then Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication devoted to the issue.
It is edited by the Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, a theologian and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, who once received an honorary degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury for his work promoting the rights of “God’s sentient creatures”. In its first editorial, the journal – jointly published by Prof Linzey’s centre and the University of Illinois in the US – condemns the use of terms such as ”critters” and “beasts”. Read more at Telegraph.co.uk Markos Markos Sinister is a Furry Web Developer.
His Fursona is a Dark Gray Were Wolf with blue eyes, dark browish/black hair with a white pentacle in his chest fur. He is most often seen wearing Victorian style clothing such as a waistcoat, cravat, and frock coat often.
Also the gay community in trouble with Nature & Animal lovers for calling each other "bears" as a term refering to fat (sometimes not so good looking), mostly old (middle age) gay men.
Those with the animal totem/spirit of the bear feels insulted by gay men using the name of the animal.
Afro-Native American and animal rights activist Ruben Pandy explains- " I'm pissed at these guys in the Gay community for insulting animals. I interviewed half of these pricks myself, these guys claims they respect the animal and nature, yet they use the word "bear" not realizing how insulting it is. They're fakes. If they REALLY respected the REAL bears of the animal world they wouldn't DARE to use the name of the species in such vain. But I am worried, these people will pay for it all when the great white bear spirit and mother earth will deal with them all. I have nothing against gay or overweight people but my animal spirit guide/ totem and Mother Earth COMES FIRST, I don't respect anyone who disrespects animals and Mother Earth. Which is why I have NO respect for these men in the gay community."
-- Artic Wolf's article on the Furry News Network http://furrynewsnetwork.com/
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