I would say that the author of this article did a good job highlighting how owning a pet is ranked in the emotional category. He used statistics, personal stories, dialogue, and humor to outline just how far people will go for their pets. Personally, I cannot think of one individual who isn't emotionally connected to their pets.
This article definitely brought about conflicting emotions for me. I consider the idea of organic pet food generally great, but if it wouldn't lead to a majority of the food industry to become organic, then I think its quite ridiculous. If all humans don't have affordable access to healthy and organic food, then why should pets? To be completely honest, if I had a pet I would probably feed them the middle of the road pet food brands. Purchasing organic food wouldn't be very realistic for me and unless I was making exuberant amounts of money, I would probably never buy it.
I found the idea of neuticles absolutely appalling, but this was partially due to the price of them, and the fact that they would serve only as a basic decoration. I volunteered in Ghana a few years ago, and still to this day compare all of the ridiculous wants we have in the developed world, to all of the unfulfilled needs many people in developing countries still have. I just can't believe people would buy their animals neuticles or a running wheel, instead of funding projects around the world that would help better humans.
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