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  • 3/19/2025
Dogs Are People Too Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: From dog-lawyers in Detroit to clone-farms in Iowa, "Dogs Are People Too" explores the four-legged civil rights movement sweeping across America. Dogs may soon be considered ‘non-human persons’, changing the human-dog bond forever.

Directed by Hendrik Faller

Featuring Amy D, Chris Olson, Prof. Hal Herzog, Prof. Gary Francione, Joshua Morton, Roz Nenninger, Ken Savage, Daryll Lindsay, Nancy Brown, Prof. Jessica Pierce, Prof. Jessica Ruben, Daina Urban

Release date: Available on Digital + On Demand April 11, 2025
Transcript
00:00As a country, we love dogs.
00:07180 pounds, number love.
00:10Oh my God!
00:11Dogs are children.
00:12They're part of the family.
00:16There's a growing market when it comes to pet clothing and accessories.
00:19Oh, he's famous!
00:20A pink flip for dogs.
00:23We might think of dogs as sort of occupying now a border species between animal and human.
00:31What? Seriously?
00:34It is civil rights violations.
00:36It's set up on people.
00:37It's on...
00:38Can you believe this?
00:39...their pets.
00:41Our relationships with animals offer this window...
00:43That's like raw.
00:44...into the human heart and the human mind that's just...
00:47I'm sorry.
00:48...stunningly...
00:49Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite!
00:50...intense.
00:52I communicate to them like an energy, like a soul.
00:56I know my duty as a mother.
00:59Under law, pets are considered property.
01:02It's a family member.
01:03My pet just saw a dog.
01:05Ten million dollars can't bring Diesel back.
01:07We can take action against the government and win.
01:13They don't belong in this world.
01:16I call it the Me Too movement for dogs.
01:18Whoa!
01:19We fetishize these animals.
01:20There's my little boy.
01:21The dog has a lawyer.
01:24It's animals perceived as legal persons.