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Animals are not only being assimilated to humans; they are being made into the destiny of humans, the entelechy ofhumanity in which it realizes its highest possibility. [Fully social] animals are assumed to have achieved a degree of success as social animals that we ourselves, who invented the idea of society, have not attained, argue the sociobiologists.(Richard Klein, “The Power of Pets: America’s Obsession with the Cute and Cuddly,”New Republic, 7/10/1995, p. 18.)