HP goes PC?

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 16788

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Samaporn Teeravechyan <teeravec at f...> 
wrote:

> I'm not American and I couldn't care less about PC-ness or 
> unPC-ness, but I feel very strongly about the idea that any
> other living creature should be in a state of natural servitude
> to humans. 

Dogs.

Just about every breed of dog has a natural instinct to obey its pack 
leader and to seek the approval of its pack leader, and most breeds 
of dog have the instinct that its pack leader is a human and not to 
challenge the human pack leader for dominance.  

> A different way of wording it would be to say that such an
> arrangement would be absolutely unnatural ...

I live with cats, rather than dogs, and it is quite obvious that 
cats do not have an innate need to serve humans. Because feral cats 
live quite naturally eating vermin and garbage and fearfully fleeing 
from any human.  But it IS part of the innate nature of cats that if 
you get them around weaning age and bring them into a human home and 
treat them as a member of the human family, they grow up with a 
life-long behavior pattern as if they were still kittens and the 
humans are their mother and littermates.  I cannot consider it 
'absolutely unnatural' to have a natural behavior pattern, just 
pointed to a different direction than in the wild. 

We started with House Elves and worked around to Dogs and Cats and I 
suppose that any replies which are not about Sirius, Crookshanks, and 
Mrs. Norris should go to the Off-Topic list...