(John)
"Look up 'consenting' in the dictionary and then figure out how an animal can give consent."
Look at the body of the human who presumably was the one initiating the act. Do you see any teeth and/or claw marks on his/her body, or any body parts missing that weren't missing before?
*pauses briefly, then shrugs in a sort of "Well, there you go." gesture*
(Devil's Advocate cap on)
Argument The First--
To John, and to everyone else who mentioned the C-word here: while it's true that the Doctor Dolittle movies are works of fiction, and that non-humans can't communicate with humans on a human level, do you honestly think that any animal big enough for a human to fuck would be incapable of understanding the concepts behind certain simple words, words such as "NO"? If you won't take the word of a zoophile (which I've never been, by the way), try using a bit of that thing we often mock fundies for lacking, known as "common sense". If a non-human animal doesn't want you to fuck it, IT'S GOING TO HURT YOU.
Non-humans (parrots and ravens notwithstanding) might not be able to speak the word "no", but even if you say and/or write "Animals can't give consent" 'til your voice is gone and your fingers bleed, they'll still damn surely understand it.
Argument The Second--
All of you who invoked the "consent" argument against Kenny-boy, raise your hand.
Now, lower your hand if any of the following is true:
* You are not a vegan, and have no intention of becoming one.
* You would neither kill, nor abide the killing of, a non-human animal who, after being needlessly, repeatedly provoked by a human purely for the fun of it, decided to defend itself, putting a scar or two on its tormentor's face to remind him in the future of why it's not okay to pick on animals like that.
* You would neither kill, nor abide the killing of, any sort of canine or feline who committed the horrible crime of being homeless.
*pauses, then smirks* Yeah, that's what I thought. It's okay to kill something non-human (with or without intending to eat it) without even worrying about it giving consent, but to have sex with it, even if there's no sign of objection on its part, well, now that's just too damn much to tolerate.
Double standards. Eliminate them from your lives, and do it now, for they are inherently more sickening than any act of bestiality could ever be. (Rat removes his Devil's Advocate cap, then tosses it into your collective face.)
There's one thing on which we do agree, though: Tempus did make quite a good argument, with or without the addition of Doctor Whooves' companion.