Pets

"Old Watch": The naming of animals

"Old Watch" is a dog photo I found in a civil war period family album, right in there with the rest of the family. There are millions more pictures of pets, with names just like the members of the family that they are.

We don't give them numbers, except in science, where we can define them as separate and treat them accordingly. Sometimes we've done this to people, too.

Jane, 2004