Although we see other animals as food, or useful to scientific studies, around 90 percent of pet owners consider their cats or dogs as a part of their family, like another child. According to David Grimm, author of the newly published ‘Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs,’ more people are living with cats and dogs, and this has helped to change how we think about, and treat other animals.

Today, we are going to learn how to do yoga with your dog at home.

No one knows for sure how they originally became domesticated, but humans’ relationship with cats and dogs is complex, and it has changed over the thousands of years that they have been living alongside us.

Although we see other animals as food, or useful to scientific studies, reportedly around 90 percent of pet owners consider their cats or dogs as a part of their family, like another child.

According to David Grimm, author of the newly published ‘Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs,’ more people are living with cats and dogs, and this has helped to change how we think about, and treat other animals.

Grimm is quoted as saying: “Part of our growth and evolution as a society is our changing relationship to the beings around us. The changing status of cats and dogs forces us to confront some very complicated questions of how inclusive we want to be.”

Animals rights laws have become common, with pet owners being legally responsible for taking care of their pet.

This applies to other animals too, like the case in New York where the Nonhuman Rights Project filed three lawsuits in December of 2013 saying that four captive chimpanzees should be legally recognized as humans.