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BlogPaws!

4 The Love Of Animals

We just returned from a fun, furry, weekend in Salt Lake City for the BlogPaws conference. The conference was for animal lovers, and it wasn’t just humans present! There were actual animals at the conference too. to Cesar for sponsoring us for the conference. We wanted to say Thank YOU!

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

4 The Love Of Animals

Once gregarious and outgoing, she withdrew from her family and friends, from everyone except her pet cats. Cathy discovered that speaking through Henry, in his voice, gave her a freedom of expression she did not have in her standard therapeutic role, and Henry’s voice became the easiest way to reach and teach humans. I’m Here too!”

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J. Baird Callicott on Value

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Some suspicion may arise at this point that the land ethic is ultimately grounded in human interests, not in those of nonhuman natural entities. Are pets, for example, well-treated, like children, for the sake of themselves, or, like mechanical appliances, because of the sort of services they provide their owners?

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