21.   Dr. Elisabeth Svendsen, whose sanctuary in western England is helping the donkeys to dry out, has treated animals given dark Guinness beer and gin.

22.   Each community has a slightly different set of rules that affect the way animals are treated.

23.   Exposes of abuse, she said, did not reflect the way most animals are treated.

24.   He teaches owners new avenues of relating to their pets and, in some cases, treats the animal with sophisticated drugs such as Prozac.

25.   I know how researchers treat lab animals, including mice and rats.

26.   If that is true, it raises an ethical issue about how animals are treated.

27.   If animals have emotions and a consciousness, what does that say about the way we should be treating animals?

28.   In a conflict so brutal that one side treats the other as animals -- indeed worse than it would treat animals -- which suffers the worst damage?

29.   In the meantime, Davis said, veterinarians have discovered that dogs also suffer from allergies, and they have begun to treat animals with allergy shots.

30.   It invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all.