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The frequent jabs at vegetarians/vegans were a little tiresome. (The author especially seemed to like to cite statistics on failed vegetarians and the number of vegetarians who actually eat meat - he brought that up a few times.) The snide and callous comments about cats compared to dogs were weird. But the real problem is that the author doesn't seem to try to answer the very question his subtitle proposes. Granted, there are some interesting facts and anecdotes (although I want to know who his friends are and why it is so common in his social circle for "normal" children to abuse animals). But the last straw for me was this pithy take on attempts to use spaying/neutering to control the homeless animal population: "One result of our rush to pluck the gonads from every household pet is that America may be running out of dogs." (Pgs. 125-26)

But a sentence above, he acknowledges that there were still an estimated 4 MILLION dogs and cats euthanized in animals shelters in 2007. So no, even though spaying/neutering has luckily grown in popularity (lucky because fewer healthy animals are euthanized for lack of space and there are numerous health benefits for the animals who are spayed/neutered), in no way is America running out of dogs. I'm going to take another reviewer's advice and try this book instead: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others by Melanie Joy.