Am I missing something? The woman is fine with killing animals for her dining pleasure, punishes her dog for not performing to her expectations and thinks dogs are of another world and should not be forced into the human world but supports breeding them? Lauren, I don't understand why you admire her. She makes many self-contradictory statements, wasn't insightful and her writing is painfully academic. Case in point: "When Species Meet is about the entanglements of beings in technoculture that work through reciprocal inductions to shape companion species." I found her comments not worthwhile.