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I LIKE TO RUB THINGS
Yes, I am a cat And yes, I like to rub things. Yes, this is my calling And yes, my duty. Yes, this is the core of my cat-ness And before I am done —Oh yes! I will make you tremble before my rubbing of...
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TOWARD NOT EATING ANIMALS
I got sober from drugs and alcohol in 2000. In the process of recovering I realized that from then on spirituality was going to be an important focus of my life—that it had to be, since the connection...
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THE KILLING OF A GIRAFFE: ONE MONTH LATER
When I first heard about the killing of the baby giraffe Marius in the Copenhagen Zoo I thought it was a joke. It seemed like some absurd satire about an evil zookeeper, something I could have seen on...
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CAT SITTER
Thank you for taking care of my four cats. Please read these instructions carefully at least five times, though ten is preferred and should give you a leg up on my pop phone quizzes. My four cats are...
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100 HEROES FOR ANIMALS
I have heroes that inspire me for all my passions: writing, film, baseball, among other things. Raymond Carver wrote “Cathedral,” Sam Peckinpah directed The Wild Bunch, and David Ortiz won more playoff...
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IS MY CAT SICK?
ME: I’m worried about you, Butch. What’s with you not eating lately? BUTCH THE CAT: You’re thinking I might be sick. ME: Yes. Maybe. I can’t tell. BUTCH: It’s a bitch, I admit. We cats. We play that...
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RAW MEAT
Even when I was a carnivore—which was a choice, not a condition—I couldn’t stand raw meat. Raw meat has a stink, and a neon pink-red color straight out of an acid nightmare. And though the supermarket...
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MY PET T. REX
When I was a boy I adopted a pet T. Rex. He was about six feet tall as a baby, scaly, green, and had teeth like roofing nails. I called him Buster because, I don’t know, he looked like a Buster. My...
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THE SICKNESS OF LYLE
I apologize for not posting and not being much involved in the blogging community in the last few months, a community that I have grown to love and cherish, and which I have missed. I have been working...
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GREAT ANIMAL BOOKS
Happy holidays everyone! Humblest of apologies, again, for being MIA in the blogosphere. Life events and the writing of the novel are to blame. I didn’t realize how much work—wonderful work—writing a...
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