Gómez Pereira, Spanish doctor and humanist, developed in the pages of his Antoniana Margarita (1554) a paradoxical thesis. First, he assures us that animals are merely soulless automatons, made of flesh, blood, and bones, incapable of reasoning before acting, and who behave like a magnet and iron, following inevitable physical laws. But then he takes a turn and tells us that if animals could feel, "we would have to admit that men act in an inhuman, violent, and cruel manner. For what is more atrocious than beasts of burden carrying considerable weight on long journeys?" And what should we say about the spectacle of bullfighting, where the cattle seem to beg "for freedom with pleading lowing"? Only if animals cannot feel can we sleep morally sound.

After spending at least three days tied up and locked in an abandoned car on Tor Mountain, in Pallars Sobirà, four dogs were freed and taken to a private facility in the municipality, awaiting transfer to an animal shelter. According to sources from the Rural Agents corps, the operation to free the animals was launched this Tuesday after a resident of the municipality called 112 that the animals had been locked inside the vehicle for several days.

Under Paulina's desk at the Purina (Nestle) offices isn't just her backpack. At her feet, lying on a gray blanket with a bowl of food within reach, is her apple, Luna. This is the third time Luna and she have spent the workday together: they enter through the main door together, take the elevator together, sit at the table together, attend meetings together, and leave together during breaks (now walks) and at lunchtime. And Luna isn't alone: she's one of the 120 dogs allowed into the company's offices in Esplugues de Llobregat.