Oh I guess that's because you get to live in your natural habitat and do whatever you want. Of course animals love zoos, hey he's not exhibiting neurotic behavior, must be fine.

Agreed, pssh there's freaking unbreakable glass there. Show me a kid who doesn't flinch when the lion has a chance to lay a nail on her and I'll be impressed, until then it's just an animal in a cage being tortured.

I think many people grieve for their pets more deeply than they may grieve for family. I know parents find it offensive when people say "my pets are like children." But that's the most analogous relationship for a lot of us.

I was wondering if epi-pens were not effective or something. Otherwise why all hyperventilating about the ubiquity of allergens?

I have horrific allergies, thankfully not to any foods, but I'd say allergic reactions are pretty defective. It's your own body trying to kill you for no good reason, can it get more flawed?

I can sympathize with your friend, I think all perfumes and stinky colognes and deodorants should be banned because they make me sneezey and wheezey.

That's all I could focus on...Oh PaGina...

Too bad it's not chapter 7. Good riddance to tasteless cakes with a strange chemical foulness and that repulsive unctuous cream filling. Ugh it's been 20 years and the Twinkie aftertaste haunts me still.

Celebrities should not be able to take over a hospital. The level of entitlement is sickening. I don't care how much money you pay you don't own the hospital and shouldn't have more rights than other patients.

There must be some kind of advancements in map technology that could make malls less horrible. There's always one map hidden somewhere and then when you come out of stores you turn the wrong way and don't realize until you get to the end where Sears is when you were actually looking for Macy's.

Yeah my brain collapsed on itself at that point. How can you legislate a belief in god and the completely arbitrary decision that life begins the second an egg is fertilized.

My late uncle cracked a rib while sneezing! Be careful out there...

Sad to say I find it kind of disappointing when that stuff happens. In fact, I just got a first message from a guy who seemed really interesting until I read his message in which he took umbrage with the fact that I had checked the Dislike Children box, wrote a paragraph about how much I must hate kids and how he had…

This is what I think too! After my unfortunate return to the dating world last year I was quite dismayed to find legions of that type inhabiting dating advice Web sites.

So you have two examples. Great counter point.

It just strikes me a little glib to say get rid of them when there are millions of feral cats and millions killed in shelters.

Sure, just take them to the pound. They'll kill it for you.

Having grown up in a house where we had a succession of cats and kittens killed and mutilated in various horrific ways outside, I can say that no matter what you think your allergy problem is, holding your beloved cat after she was run over is much, much worse.

Not wrong at all...if you ask me.

For sure, they're all victims. It's really just sick, though my point was more is there a need to industrialize foie gras when it's been portrayed by it's defenders as artisanal and small scale. Obviously when sold by any fast food restaurant that is not the case.