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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions. When it comes to the legislation ( which may or may not mean anything for dogs and cats ), Cohen sides with the people who recognize that cats and dogs are no different from chickens and geese. There's no way out.

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A Chance for Bliss

4 The Love Of Animals

Currently, A Chance for Bliss sanctuary is home to 96 residents including 25 horses, 22 dogs, 8 goats, 7 pot belly pigs , 4 sheep, 2 steers, 5 ducks, 5 geese, 5 cockatiels, 4 rabbits, 3 chickens, 3 cats, 1 turkey, a one-winged pigeon, Hines, and a turtle, Bart. The oldest dog, Max, is 17, while the oldest horse, Prince is 36.

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Winter Wanderland

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Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting. Usually not one to chicken out, the worried and concerned looks on their faces told me not to ignore the advice. Coming down from the emotional high we noticed our grumbling stomachs: time to eat.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already.