NO ORDINARY LOVE: ‘Living with Freddie: How a Dog Taught Me to Be Human’
NO ORDINARY LOVE: ‘Living with Freddie: How a Dog Taught Me to Be Human’
‘Living with Freddie’ is a meditation on what it means to be bad or good, on how much we can—or should—try to alter another being’s behavior, and what is possible to know about another mind. But at its heart, this is a beautiful, heart-wrenching portrait of the relationship between a human and a dog. And at the end of Freddie’s story, you, too, may find yourself changed. ANNA HEYWARD: When Anna Heyward adopted Freddie, a rescued Italian greyhound, she was thrilled to bring a dog into her life. But Freddie, she quickly realized, had severe separation anxiety, unable to be left […]
DOMINION: Humans kill kill kill, while blindly killing themselves
DOMINION: Humans kill kill kill, while blindly killing themselves
An animal’s death is fast and visible — a kill floor, a truck, a plate, over in a day. A customer’s death is slow and invisible — engineered cravings compounding quietly for twenty years until it finally announces itself as a heart attack, an amputation, a diagnosis he cannot afford to treat. It is the same blindness twice over. The customer who will not picture the animal’s fear on the way to the counter is the same customer who will not picture what that meal is doing to his own arteries on the way home. Me, me, me. Some of that is ignorance, […]
Animal rights advocates brutally attacked in Greece for protesting Santorini’s donkey rides
Animal rights advocates brutally attacked in Greece for protesting Santorini’s donkey rides
More than 500 steep steps lead to the old town of Firá on Santorini, where donkeys are forced to carry tourists, including some obese travelers, often in scorching heat, while a cable car has operated nearby for decades. The donkeys and mules are treated as living taxis and are constantly pushed to the brink of collapse, they are forced to endure lives of pain and suffering. REUTERS CONNECT: Three PETA Germany supporters were attacked on the Karavolades Stairway while preparing to rally against the treatment of donkeys used to carry tourists up the island’s steep steps. Men destroyed the protesters’ signs […]
