Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

Would You Wear Your Dog? “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”(Mahatma Gandhi) Being asked if they would wear dog or cat fur, most people would probably rigorously say no and give me a weird look. Now how is it then, that the same people that carry their little toy poodle all over have no problem wearing a mink fur coat? How is it that a family’s golden retriever, the children’s best friend and protector, is different than other animals and would not be considered as a fur donor? Furthermore, let us consider how many times dolphins have saved people’s lives that were threatened by a shark. Swimmers suddenly found themselves being the potential prey of a shark as dolphins formed a circle around the swimmer to protect him and succeeded. There was no reason for those highly intelligent dolphins to help the swimmer-nevertheless they endangered their own lives for the swimmer’s life. I can only imagine how happy those people were to be saved by those dolphins. Would the