STRAY DOG
Both words are unacceptable. They imply a four-legged mongrel is subsisting as a vagrant. We have chosen the term Misdirected Wagamorph.

MUSTANG
Definitely out. Associated too much with a greedy automotive corporation. We are going to protect them into extinction. They shall henceforth be called Adoptable Equine Derivatives.

KILLER WHALES
Need I say more? The name suggests these beautiful creatures would rather kill and eat living things than down a kelp burger in the shape of a baby seal. We’re calling them the Masked Cetacea.

FAT STEERS
Entirely out. No slur shall be made about the weight or their sexual predicament. Each cattle buyer will now deal in Ready Edibles. No, that won’t work either – can’t mention bulls. How ’bout Ripened Ruminants?

GOMER BULLS
Of course, any allusion to sex must be eliminated. The term “gomer” really has no meaning but leaves one with the impression he’s one brick shy of a load. And though he’s certainly one something shy of a load, the association with Mayberry RFD must be downplayed.

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He shall hereinafter be christened the Frustrated Titillator – no, that won’t work either. I’ve got it: a Misguided Chromosome Depositor.

QUARTER HORSE
No chance. The hypersensitive could interpret that to mean he’s three-quarters something else. I’ve coined the term Dollar Horse.

POLLED HEREFORD
Come on, now. Wouldn’t it be less discriminatory to rename it the Unhorned Himherford.

Too many of our creatures were named by that original chauvinist, Adam, with unconscious patronizing to sex, gender, race, religion, size, handicap, mental state, congenital deformity or odd behavior.

Consider how insensitive we are to call something a nanny goat, a laying hen, preying mantis, peafowl, woodpecker, short-nosed sucker or turkey.

I admit I’ve been called a turkey, but I thought it was a step up from the dodo.

But if we are truly worried about the political correctness fad, what are we gonna call a cowboy? A Two-Legged Ungulate Overperson? Why not?

“Git along, little Disenfranchised Mobile Nurture Seeker.”  end mark