Quote Originally Posted by kurgan
Giving animals rights does not - at least to me - mean giving them the 'same rights as humans' - as someone wittily pointed out you can hardly give an anaconda the right to own property! The degree to which they are given would obviously depend on the species involved as well - an earthworm is not a cat is not a bonobo.
totally agree

I would consider myself an animal rights activist (not a PETA crazy) but I also obviously have pets of my own.

I don't think that animals should have the same rights as us (as previously stated above) but I think that there needs to be some legal protection for them. As long as we take animals captive it is our responsibility to care for them as we would ourselves or our children.