article thumbnail

Can I train a pine marten to be a pet or companion animal?

Reddit Animals

I see people taming minks and using them as work animals for hunting rats and mice. My neighbours empty shed was taken over my a pine marten. It'll be having babies soon. Can I keep one and domesticate or tame it enough to be a good pet? Can I do this with a pine marten? Why or why not?

article thumbnail

On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

This says it all: "[T]he vision of sustainable farms that give animals a good life (a life as good as we give our dogs or cats) and an easy death (as easy as a death we give our suffering and terminally ill companion animals) has moved me" (242). The plate might have to be five feet across" (50). This is very silly.