Human Animal Bond

A friend of mine and a veterinarian’s wrote this excellent article and I wanted to share it with you.

 

 

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I’m going to dress up an old somewhat fuzzy term: I’m going to re-define the “human animal bond” (from here on out the HAB) as an emergent property.

 

The HAB has always seemed to me to be too warm and fuzzy to take seriously. I trained back when most vets started their lives as ranchers, farmers and hunters. That meant that I had to be as unsentimental as possible, especially as a woman. The veterinarian’s historic role was to support agriculture and public health; animals were utilitarian and financial entities.  To fit in with the culture at that time was to be practical, tough and unemotional—to eschew cuteness....

 

Link to rest of article......