Hurt Go Happy - I liked this; semi-plot spoilers follow. The book is targeted mainly to preteens/young teens (main character is ~14), and it spends most of its pages dealing with the themes of overbearing/overprotective parents, being/feeling like an outcast, & being deaf, but the book also shows the development of a relationship between the main character and a chimpanzee, and does an excellent job of showing just how inhumanely chimps and other animals are treated by people who profit from them (I'll leave it at that to avoid spoiling the plot for anyone who ignored my warning).



A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/modest.html

Owning pets

• 2018.06.12 - YouTube - Looks Theory - The Effects of Mouth Breathing on Facial Growth
  • According to this video, if you're an adolescent and allergic to the pet and it blocks your nose, there's a real danger of developing a mouthbreathing habit that can lead to permanent facial deformities.