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.
What do you notice now about this image’s directly stated vs. its implied messages?
trauma, in an effort to understand how they interact with genetic factors.
ou may know our new author, Alice Walker, as the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple. Walker was born in Georgia in 1944. Her parents were sharecroppers and she was the youngest of 8 children. She attended Spelman and then Sarah Lawrence college. An activist for social justice, after college Walker worked on behalf of voter registration drives and participated in the famous 1963 march on Washington. 
ght have missed it and (2) to encourage you to participate if you’re at all interested. The research, Katie Brown (’15), is a psychology major and former student of mine. Her project is, so far as I know, the first psychology honors thesis on dog cognition, which is a growing area of interest. I’ll be participating with my crew. If you’re interested,
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