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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

4 The Love Of Animals

For these folks, I recommend a nontraditional pet like a rat or a guinea pig. Rats are extremely cuddly, they don’t bite and they only live two years. I strongly encourage people to adopt pound and shelter animals. Today I own 40 outdoor dogs and two more who live indoors! Purebred or mixed breed?

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Quantico Has No Compassion for Feral Cats

Critter News

If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them. The raptors feed on these things (mice, rats), snakes feed on these things, it’s in the wild food chain and the cat interrupts that because it’s not part of the natural setting.” Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base.