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Dogs Are People Too

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From dog-lawyers in Detroit to clone-farms in Iowa, "Dogs Are People Too" road-trips America to follow a landmark civil rights trial over the killing of a dog. The mother of the deceased dog wants to bring those who killed her boy to justice. On her journey she steps into a world of dog-lawyers and canine rights that is bubbling under the surface of America. Her trial spotlights a conflict -- whilst Americans love their dogs as family members, legally they own them as property, with no more rights than a table or chair. We look at what rights our beloved dogs really have, whilst inadvertently challenging what right we have to own them. What follows is a four-legged civil rights movement that would see dogs considered not as property but as non-human persons. America is asking a question resonating around the world -- from Orangutan-personhood in Argentina to Octopuses reclassified as sentient in the U.K. -- is it time we reconsider the nature of our relationship with animals?
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Hendrik Faller

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Synopsis From dog-lawyers in Detroit to clone-farms in Iowa, "Dogs Are People Too" road-trips America to follow a landmark civil rights trial over the killing of a dog. The mother of the deceased dog wants to bring those who killed her boy to justice. On her journey she steps into a world of dog-lawyers and canine rights that is bubbling under the surface of America. Her trial spotlights a conflict -- whilst Americans love their dogs as family members, legally they own them as property, with no more rights than a table or chair. We look at what rights our beloved dogs really have, whilst inadvertently challenging what right we have to own them. What follows is a four-legged civil rights movement that would see dogs considered not as property but as non-human persons. America is asking a question resonating around the world -- from Orangutan-personhood in Argentina to Octopuses reclassified as sentient in the U.K. -- is it time we reconsider the nature of our relationship with animals?
Director
Hendrik Faller
Producer
Tom Miller
Distributor
Gravitas Ventures
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 11, 2025
Runtime
1h 12m
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