From : The Globe and Mail
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I have always been interested in the relationship between human and other creatures. Where does the human end and the not-human begin?
How are we different from and complicit with other species? How many of the answers are tainted by justifications of ourselves to ourselves, or by our need to delineate ourselves as separate? How many answers are distorted by the simple fact of our consumption of beasts?
Before beginning Dog Boy I had written a number of stories that experimented with unsentimental guesswork about the consciousness of a cow, a dog, or a cockatoo, and with the limits of my own capacity to inhabit another point of view. In hindsight I think I was primed for a big story on the theme of animal and human being, and, as these things go, that story found me.
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