animal cruelty

As much as you can say about PETA, you have to admit that they’ve got guts. Going undercover to expose animal abuse can’t be an easy task. I couldn’t even convincingly smuggle a ferret into my house as a teenager; I tripped, stuttered, and gave myself away within five seconds of my mother’s suspicious glare. I don’t think I’d be cut out to be an undercover investigator; it probably takes a special person.

I also remember my mother, sort of an animal right’s activist herself (not a veg-head, but not a supporter of fur, wild animals in cages, etc.), steadfastly refusing to take us to the circus when it came to town, telling us that “circuses hurt elephants.” I know now that she held this belief for good reasons. Read more