(March 26, 2014 at 1:44 pm)No_God Wrote: My cat literally gets everything and anything he wants. I found him in a barn a few years back. Since then he has been vaccinated for everything, de-wormed, treated with antibiotics, and had blood, fecal, and respiratory screenings to make sure he is healthy. It wasn't cheap. If it wasn't for me he would be dead because he had tapeworms, round worms, feline chlamydia, and a bunch of other respiratory diseases...First, there's a lot more to this than pets.
So, honestly... who's really the slave?
Second, the cat is still really the slave. You own the cat. Benevolent slaving is still slaving. You wouldn't excuse ownership of a human because the human was pampered.