Do Animals Need to Serve us to Matter?

The authors use the technique of challenging a commonly held belief to show their claim that free-living dogs still have value even when they aren’t owned or serving humans. One part of the text that really shows this is when they write, " Free-living dogs pose a fundamental challenge to the idea that animals must serve some human purpose" (Srinivasan and Pearson 62). What the authors say here is literally that dogs do not need to be owned or useful to have value. What they do with this line is challenge the whole mindset that animals exist only to please us, work for us, or be controlled by…