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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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Friend, neighbors, and neglected dogs.

Reddit Animals

The plan was to keep him but they ended up finding his owners and giving him back was very emotional. Their dream is to run a dog ranch for abandoned neglected dogs so it’s really hitting home. They love there dogs and are amazing owners. A few days ago a stray showed up and they took him in.

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My rescue dog had to be euthanized due to aggressive brain tumor only after a month of having him and I feel shattered. Ways to cope? Would it be wrong to buy a new puppy?

Reddit Animals

My rescue dog was 5 years old and I wanted to give him a loving home after being abandoned (probably due to brain tumor symptoms), but I am too scared to take a new rescue dog so I think about a puppy. I am scared I will fall into depression otherwise, my dog was a huge emotional support to me since I have PTSD.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture."

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

A great number of animals owe their lives to our intention to eat them. If we value animal life and animal comfort, therefore, we should endorse our carnivorous habits, provided it really is life , and not living death, on which those habits feed.

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