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我现在完全搞不懂狗狗了，也不明白为什么它们能进杂货店和飞机。如今你再也看不到它们被拴在商店或餐馆外面了。它们必须待在室内，和人没什么两样。
我在《纽约时报》上读到一篇专栏文章，讲一位女士带着她的狗去公园的游乐区。当时母狗正处于发情期，她们刚到那里，就被另一只公狗骑跨并受孕了。
如今这位女士正在起诉那只公狗的主人，要求对方支付一半的孕期护理费用，以及幼犬出生后前六周的一半开销。
那位男士拒绝了她的上述要求，但提出愿意为她的狗支付堕胎费用。她拒绝了这个提议，称这有违她的宗教信仰。
为狗堕胎有违她的宗教信仰？我读到这里时心里就是这么想的。
这篇文章下面有数百条评论：“你把发情的母狗带到公园，还能指望发生什么？”一些人这样问道。
但我还是纠结于那位女士的要求：支付孕期费用和幼犬前六周的护理费用？
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我小时候，家里养过柯利牧羊犬。母狗达奇斯在我们家车库里生下了六只幼崽，当时我们一分钱都没花。直到第一只幼崽出生，我们才知道它怀孕了，所以根本没有过产前护理。当看起来有一只新生儿快要死了的时候，我妈妈把它放进温热的烤箱里待了一会儿，之后它就没事了。
幼犬靠喝母奶长大——我们没花一分钱。它们睡在汽车旁边的一条毯子上，后来我们把它们放进一个写着“免费柯利幼犬”的纸板箱里，带到杂货店，把它们全都送了人（它们很可能体内有寄生虫，但那就是下一个主人的事了）。
现在人们会雇助产士来照顾自己的狗吗？我很好奇。这一点也不令人意外。
我不知道公园里的那位男士和女士最终是怎么解决问题的。我只是庆幸自己不认识他们，这样我就永远不必说：“我作为朋友跟你说句实话，你们俩都疯了。”
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- davidsedarisbooks.com
本文由艾米·沃尔制作。编辑：埃马努埃莱·塞奇。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/david-sedaris-on-dogs-and-the-people-who-obsess-over-them/
David Sedaris on dogs and the people who obsess over them
May 3, 2026 / 10:29 AM EDT / CBS News
I don’t get dogs anymore, don’t understand why they need to be in grocery stores and on airplanes. You never see them tied up outside shops or restaurants nowadays. They have to be inside, no different from people.
I read a column in The New York Times about a woman who had taken her dog to a play area in a park. It was in heat, and upon their arrival it was mounted and impregnated by another dog.
Now the woman was suing the owner of the male dog, insisting that he pay for half the pregnancy care, plus half the expenses for the puppies’ first six weeks.
The guy said no to the above, but offered to pay for the woman’s dog to have an abortion. This, she turned down, saying it was against her religion.
A dog abortion is against her religion? I thought when I read that.
There were hundreds of comments accompanying the article: “What did you think would happen when you brought a female in heat to the park?” some people asked.
Me, though, I was still stuck on the woman’s conditions: Paying the pregnancy costs and for the first six weeks of puppy care?
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When I was a child, my family had collies, and when the female, Dutchess, had a litter of six in our garage, it cost us exactly zero dollars and zero cents. We didn’t know she was pregnant until the first one came out of her, so there was no pre-natal care. When it looked like one of the newborns would die, my mother popped it into a warm oven for a while and it was fine after that.
The puppies drank their mother’s milk—no cost to us. They lived on a blanket next to the car until we put them in a cardboard box with “Free Collies” written on the side of it, brought them to the grocery store, where we gave them all away (full of worms, most likely, but that was the next person’s responsibility).
Do people hire midwives for their dogs now? I wonder. It wouldn’t surprise me any.
I have no idea how the man and the woman in the park resolved their problem. I’m just glad that I don’t know them, so I never have to say, “I’m telling you this as a friend, but you’re both crazy.”
For more info:
- “The Land and Its People: Essays” by David Sedaris (Little, Brown & Co.), in Hardcover, Large Print Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available May 26 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- davidsedarisbooks.com
Story produced by Amy Wall. Editor: Emanuele Secci.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/david-sedaris-on-dogs-and-the-people-who-obsess-over-them/
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