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SHOULD YOU HAVE A PET?   America is experiencing a population boom — of pets. Driven by rising disposable income and urbanization and by evolving attitudes toward animals, the number of pets has grown more rapidly since the mid-1970s than the human population, to the point where there are now about as many pets as there are people. We don’t just buy pets as never before, we also treat them differently. More animals are living in our houses and are given over to a life of leisure. Animals are spoken of as family members — and not just dogs and cats, but rabbits, rats and snakes. We feed them scientifically formulated organic diets and take them to veterinary specialists. Veterinarians and psychologists describe these changing practices as evidence of a deepening “human-animal bond.” I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the very notion of “pet.” Scientists studying animal cognition and emotion are continually peeling back the mysteries of animal minds, revealing an incredible and often surprising richness in the thoughts and feelings of other creatures. For instance, the more I’ve learned about goldfish the guiltier I feel that I subjected several of these creatures to a life of endless tedium, swimming circles in a small bowl on my daughter’s dresser. When I came upon the conclusion by the University of Tennessee ethologist Gordon Burghardt that the best we can do for captive reptiles is a life of “controlled deprivation,” I wished I had never bought Lizzy, our gecko. I felt awful when I learned that Lizzy’s perpetual clawing at the glass wall of her tank was most likely a manifestation of captivity-induced stress. We had basically been torturing her, and it is not surprising that she died after only two years, despite our efforts to give proper care. The ethical problems with the small creatures we stuff into cages and tanks are relatively clear-cut. The more challenging moral questions arise in relation to our closest furry friends: dogs and cats. Unlike animals that must spend their entire life in a cage or that must struggle to adapt to a human environment, most cats and dogs have it pretty good. Many have the run of our homes, share in many of the activities of their human families, and may even have opportunities to form social relationships with others of their kind. They have lived in close contact with humans for thousands of years and are well adapted to living as our companions. They can form close bonds with us and, despite species barriers, can communicate their needs and preferences to us, and we to them. Yet the well-being of our cats and dogs is perhaps more compromised than most of us would like to admit. There are, of course, the obvious systemic problems like cruelty, neglect, abandonment, the millions wasting away in shelters waiting for a “forever home” or whose lives are snuffed out because they don’t behave the way a “good” pet should. But even the most well-meaning owner doesn’t always provide what an animal needs, and it is likely that our dogs and cats may be suffering in ways we don’t readily see or acknowledge. We can too easily forget that although we have an entire world outside our home, we are everything to our animals. How many dogs, for instance, are given lots of attention inside a home, but rarely get outside? How many spend their weekdays inside and alone, while their owners are at work, save for the one or two times a dog walker or neighbor drops by for a few minutes to feed them and take them out briefly? Is it going too far to suggest that these dogs are suffering? It may be hard to recognize the harmful aspects of pet keeping when all we hear is how beloved pets are, how happy they are to be in our company, and how beautiful and enduring the human-animal bond is. Yet if we really care about animals, we ought to look beyond the sentimental and carefully scrutinize our practices. Animals are not toys — they are living, breathing, feeling creatures. Perhaps we can try to step into their paws or claws and see what being a pet means from their perspective. We might not always like what we see.

Identify the gland pictured below. [A] Identify the hormone released from the structure in the black circle #2 that would be released in response to low blood glucose levels. [B]

Identify number 21

Which sentence demonstrates the elimination of wordiness? a. The sun rose. The birds sang. The flowers bloomed.b. As the sun rose, the birds sang and the flowers bloomed.c. The rising sun welcomed singing birds and blooming flowers.d. Rising, singing, blooming: nature awakened with the sun.

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The majority of arrests are made _____________.

            Figure 1                             Figure 2                                 Figure 3 Each of the figures above best illustrates one of the Gestalt principles.  Correctly identify two of these three principles.  For EC, name all three correctly. Figure 1: [i] Figure 2: [ii] Figure 3: [iii]

Above is a numbered diagram of brain areas.  For each, first name the area, and then name a function of the area.  For extra credit {EC}, name a second, different, function of the area. Label Area Name Function EC Additional Function 1 [i]  [ii]  [iii]  2  [iv]    [v]    [vi]   3 [vii] [viii] [ix] 4 [x] [xi] [xii] 5 [xiii] [xiv] [xv]  

10 POINTS: Go back to review the 6 items you skipped.  Pick one additional question to answer from the 6 “skipped” questions.  Remove the word “Skip” from that blank and type in your answer using 3-4 sentences.

10 POINTS: Questions 7-9 refer to Chapter 3.  Answer 1 of the 3 questions in this section. Write “Skip” in the blank of the 2 questions you choose not to answer.