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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.,

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Kermie

Animal Person

On a very quiet night during a lull in the drama of the ducks, I was researching the Greyhound racing industry, and seething over its treatment of dogs as well as the support it often gets, through subsidies, to help it survive. And of course, shuttling wildlife to and fro, and contemplating their place in our lives and our place in theirs.