Kenny Torella is a staff writer at Vox who recently published an article titled The Case Against Pet Ownership. He says there are around 250 million animals kept as pets just in the US. There's abusive training of dogs and cats, keeping animals outdoors in extreme temperatures,. verbal abuse, lack of exercise, lack of vet care, boredom, etc.
The descendants of Pablo Escobar’s pet hippopotami are wreaking havoc in Colombia. They can teach us non-druglords a thing or two about pet ownership.
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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