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Aug 30 2008, Oscar

Today I lost a loved one, a cherished family friend. Some may feel a dog is just a pet. Others claim our profound bonds with animals are a replacement of the compassion and love we no longer trust to give to our own human race. I have never tried to...

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Dogs in a cage are on display at an international pet lovers exposition Friday Sept. 5, 2008 in Shanghai, China. Following the communist seizure of power in 1949, dog ownership was condemned as a bourgeois affectation and canines were hunted as pests....