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Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives because they are not part of the human world and they are not part of the animal world.

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Gary L. Francione
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: May 24
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Gary Lawrence Francione
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