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An Open Letter to Outdoor/Feral Cat Supporters

10,000 Birds

I’ve rescued field mice to horses, and everything in between. Can your hearts be so species-specific? There is no moral ambiguity here. Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/Feral Cat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? It sickens me. I have been rescuing animals, both wild and domestic, since I was a child. It’s natural.”).

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

In each case, "rational man" had to rethink human identity ¯ his species identity common to all other humans, or rather, all those counted as "human" and as part of the valuer´s community. Humanized' mice speak volumes (scienceblog.com). Check out the rest and let me know what you think. Why can we talk?

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.