WRITING 39C
Animal Science & Rights Research Portfolio
BY: Antonia Piercey
2.4 million
Dogs killed each year
1.6 million
Dogs adopted
14,000
Animal Shelters
1
Earth for Us to Protect
The focal point of this quarter's Writing 39C course is Animal Science. This complex topic contains multiple articles that discuss severe animal issues and illustrate a variety of animal experiments. As a result, our work forces connections to made to the real world and personal ethics to be put to the test. Overall, the goal of this course is to conduct research and advocate for animal rights due to their emotional, intelligent, or communicative abilities.
Learning Objective and Description
Cognitive Intelligence
Dogs are proven to naturally demonstrate cognitive intelligence using their olfactory signals. Therefore, they are able to distinguish themselves from the world.
Social Intelligence
Dogs are able to socially comprehend the complexities of human communication and thus act based on the gestures given. This indicates that dogs are socially intelligent.
Emotional Intelligence
Domestic dogs live in close proximity with humans and therefore are capable of expressing empathy towards them. This has caused dogs to gain the ability to show affection by yawing, thus proving they are emotionally intelligent.
Dog Euthanasia
Dog euthanasia is a huge problem that frequently occurs in shelters. The reason for this is because it cruelly strips away life from a healthy dog. This inhumane form of killing is positively correlated with dog overpopulation, indicating that as the number of dogs increases, the number of dogs murdered by humans also increases
Ending Dog Euthanasia
Dog euthanasia can end once more affordable spay and neuter programs are implemented, dog sellers who do not work for a pound or shelter are taxed, and laws to ban euthanasia are enforced. Simply, raising awareness for abandoned and mistreated dogs on a variety of social media platforms can also help in this endeavor.
Link Information
Located at the top right of this page is a set of six colored boxes with links that will take you to another aspect about dog science. They highlight my growth in this course in terms of conducting research as well as summarize my thoughts about dog intelligence.
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Specifically, the box titled "Research Agenda" contains a list of all my annotated bibliographies that you can reference.
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The "Literature Review" and "Advocacy Project" links illustrate my progress based on the two main essays I wrote.
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The boxes that have the name "Presentations" and "Social Media" demonstrate my campaigns and advocating abilities for animal rights, with a particular focus on dogs.
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Additionally, the "Blog" link exhibits all the blog posts I have created and kept track of my progress throughout this course.
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All these links allow you to go more in depth with my topic and analyze the research I conducted.
