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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

4 The Love Of Animals

Choosing the right pet for your child is key. I didn’t get my first dog until I was 20, but since then I have been making up for lost time. Today I own 40 outdoor dogs and two more who live indoors! Start with easier pets – Many people don’t want to start with the responsibility of a dog or cat.

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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable.

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On THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING

Animal Person

When I agreed to read and review Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING (Harper 2010), the regal Charles Hobson Booger, III was still with us. He was adopted by the Masson family and was apparently the most loving dog all who met him had ever had the pleasure of being licked by. And the crying would never stop.

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On Not Eating Animals

Animal Person

And when Foer writes that he approves of farms that treat their animals the way we treat pet dogs, that's his real message. Compassion, as most people define it, is virtuous, but it smacks of mercy, which screams subjection. What animals need isn't our mercy, it's our defense of their right to their lives without our domination.

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First Phoebe of 2011

10,000 Birds

my dog is named Phoebe so I see her everyday — all day. Corey Mar 20th, 2011 at 9:20 pm I should have mentioned that Larry thinks that Tree Swallows signal spring …who is right? Joseph Mar 20th, 2011 at 10:17 pm “who is right? Wicked, right? Audrey Mar 20th, 2011 at 1:17 pm and PS. Thanks for visiting!

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Sea Snakes of Northern Australia

10,000 Birds

Olive Sea Snake that has had a dog visit it on the beach Olive Sea Snake with obvious bulge Stoke’s Sea Snake Stoke’s Sea Snake with wounds Dubois’ Sea Snake Dubois’ Sea Snake being returned to the sea! And that was one lucky dog, ey? Wicked, right? I hope you enjoy these photos! Thanks for visiting!

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

There's no "compassion" in the process. I wouldn't do it to a dog, and I shouldn't do it to a chicken/sheep/cow/pig. It's just not right. Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane. It's cruel. No argument here. Here, that enemy being Death.)