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Du Toit makes a distinction between proudly owning pets and maintaining them. The former, she argues, might “foster or reinforce problematic attitudes in the direction of the animals we hold as companions … we are very unlikely to think about ourselves as having onerous moral duties to that which is our property”. By shifting our considering and language to “‘caring for’ or ‘keeping’ companion animals” says Du Toit, “we are much more likely to deal Pets News with our companion animals in a manner that’s applicable, given their inherent moral worth”. Because there is no test yet for the illness …