Piedmont Pet Care

Are you thinking about getting a pet, whether adopting from a rescue or shopping from a store? Do you have a pet, but question their quality of life, even as a loving pet owner?

At Piedmont Pet Care, we only want the best for animals. That’s why we’ve made this list of resources to guide you through the ethics of pet ownership. The following articles and recommended books may provide helpful insight to you.

General

1. The Case Against Pet Ownership
2. Should We Stop Keeping Pets? Why More & More Ethicists Say Yes
3. Why You Shouldn’t Get a Pet
4. Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
5. Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
6. The Case Against Pets

Cat Specific

1. Shouldn’t Cats Be Allowed to Hunt?
2. The Ethics of Keeping a Killer Cat
3. Street Life Ain’t Easy for a Stray Cat
4. One Cat, One Year, 110 Native Animals: Lock Up Your Pet, It’s a Killing Machine
5. How the “No Kill” Movement Betrays Its Name
6. Free-Ranging Domestic Cat Abundance
7. Domestic Cats & Their Impacts on Biodiversity
8. Hunting Behavior in Domestic Cats