[lbo-talk] Re:Pets -- Diana

[H. Curtiss Leung]

Sorry: I didn't mean to sound like an outraged pet owner, only that I didn't
think the two were comparable.  Full disclosure: I do not now but have in
the past had a pet.  A small tree frog.  It died almost 10 years ago.  A 
frog doesn't have the emotional repetiore of a dog or cat, so what I felt
probably lines up with what you intended, though.  Still, I had to take care
of it, could not only watch, but touch it, blah blah blah....and I'm damned
if I can figure out what people got of Diana.

Curtiss


> 
> I can probably say that because I'm not a pet person. It's not that I don't 
> like animals; I just don't like domesticated animals -- so my sense of how 
> they could be "like family" is uninformed at best. I agree that she was 
> just an image, but there was a lot of emotion invested in that 
> image...which is how I see people investing emotion in their pets. The 
> analogy was not meant to be disrespectful to pet-owners. I apologize.
> 
> Joanna
> 
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