In "The Free Dogs of India", Srinivasan uses argument to expose speciesism, showing that dogs should not be defined or valued based on breed. She confronts negative stereotypes surrounding Indian free-living dogs and urges readers to recognize a dog's worth beyond its breed. To challenge society's obsession with pedigree, she asserts: "Yet dogs existed before breeds, and most dogs living on this planet today cannot be understood in terms of breed" (Srinivasan 62). The author is saying that dogs' value and existence are independent of human-made systems of classification, like breed. What she…