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Training an animal? An ethicist explains how and why your dog − but not your frog − can be punished

By Jon Garthoff, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee

Questions about how to ethically train different kinds of pets depend on the nature of those animals’ inner lives and their abilities to learn.

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