Excalibur

There are lots of stories about Excalibur, the dog exposed, to Ebola who was euthanized.  Here’s one.  It’s interesting that concern for the dog tends to be represented as separate from concern for humans (look at the way this article ends).  As if people who care about one by default do not care about the other.

ETA: Such rhetoric is pretty common whenever anyone expresses concern for non-human animals, and its intent is to demean that concern.  It also reinscribes the human/animal binary by implying that concern for non-human animals is somehow different from concern for human animals, that a reasonable person could not have concern for all animals, human and non-human.