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>> Dan Well, you know this is a course on human animal relations as a topic and we've
been talking about animal ethics. I'm teaching a human animal relations 802 composition course
and we're discussing how humans and animals interact. And I thought it was important to
have an animal present in the classroom at least once because what we're discussing is
conspicuously absent from the class otherwise. Mazzy, what do you feel about animal rights?
Mm. Mm. That's what I thought [laughter]
>> Mazzy, she's a rescue pitbull-type dog and we've had her for about 4 years. She roamed
around the classroom and I think it was interesting for my students, among other things, to see
how an animal interprets a classroom, that particular space because for Mazzy, it's not
a space of education but she's interpreting the space in a wholly different way.
[bark] >> And I noticed my students seemed more at
ease. They can think about their experiences in the classroom and actually use that, incorporate
that into their essay as a text that their reading or they're interpreting and drawing
it in as research. My students really enjoyed it, I think, and got a lot out of it in terms
of information and knowledge. I enjoy it too and um, she's a teacher's pet.