 A Pet's Place in the Family
Do you refer to your dog as your baby? Or refer to your actual children as your dog’s siblings? Research suggests that many of us regard pets as bona fide family members. Even parrots have been called FIDS – short for feathered kids. We’ll be exploring the way we now see what some would rather call ‘companion animals’.
Jenni is joined by Professor Nickie Charles; co-author of “My Family and Other Animals: Pets as Kin”
and Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at Warwick University and Tom Cox; author of “Under the Paw, Confessions of a Cat Man”
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