In teaching Augustine's privation view of evil, I often use the examples of cutting the wings off my pet parrot Polly (fictional) or having our cat Rasputle's voice box removed so he won't whine all the time (fictional as well, but tempting).
A few weeks back, I found the following story from the 50s posted on a blog:
When I shared this with my Intro students this past week, a student who's interned at a vet clinic in New Mexico told me that she's seen the surgery performed on dogs. I never would have thought vets would actually do this, much less still do it.
I think I'll go ask our cat if he wants to go on a road trip.
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