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pecwae

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18. Add me to the not-built-for-it

Reply to loudsue (Reply #7)

Fri Feb 8, 2013, 07:31 AM

Feb 2013

list. I don't kill animals including humans. I don't eat the meat or use the skins of animals. I don't hold myself as some sort of holy person for what I do or don't do. It's just the way I'm built.

BTW your comment did not compare animal farmers to mercenaries.

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Do animals have imagination? [View all] The Straight Story Feb 2013 OP

When our dogs used to stalk their toys, woo me with science Feb 2013 #1

Yes they do... Kalidurga Feb 2013 #2

Cats dream, too. Twitchy paws, lips, whiskers......little kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #9

A cat I had in the 1970s, a Tonkinese, used to take a rolled up tblue37 Feb 2013 #15

I think there's no doubt magellan Feb 2013 #3

If you spend time with animals, without the "professional detachment" we take on when Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #4

That is also why some of us don't kill them to earn a living. loudsue Feb 2013 #7

Probably wasn't such a nice thing to say, kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #10

A lot of people don't really have a choice. Until we can devote the time and resources Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #11

Add me to the not-built-for-it pecwae Feb 2013 #18

I'm sure that my Attack Cats do. They even have lucid dreams. slackmaster Feb 2013 #5

What or who imagined us? Does time and the universe think? Lint Head Feb 2013 #6

Why would anyone think they don't? Humans have always underestimated... Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #8

My late and much loved pecwae Feb 2013 #19

Yep, my cat imagines every night snooper2 Feb 2013 #12

My dogs obviously sit there and think about things XemaSab Feb 2013 #13

cat toys! KT2000 Feb 2013 #14

On my _Pet Tales_ website I tell about a cat I had who used to tblue37 Feb 2013 #16

that's great! n/t KT2000 Feb 2013 #20

This is my Buddy that regularly plays with, hides and catches, Nhrtuvdxi Feb 2013 #17