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  • Dr. Dianne Dunning, director of the Animal Welfare, Ethics and Public Policy Program at North Carolina State University, said that shift has shadowed breakthroughs in veterinary medicine.

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  • "You're seeing in many cases now that pets are equivalent in status to children within a family," she said.

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