This snippet of a longer essay is taken out of context, but still, I think, fairly reflects some of what the author intends:
It's hard to explain, but you never really own a dog the way you own a child of your own species.
The larger essay is focused on dog 'ownership', spirituality and responsibility, but I caught up short on reading this sentence. I can state in no uncertain terms that I do not own my daughter. True, I owe her allegiance, and society at large holds me responsible for her acts until an arbitrary age of majority. But own her? I hope the author in this case was merely making an unfortunate choice of words.
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