Category: Animal Rights

  • Understanding our general attitudes to animals

    Understanding our general attitudes to animals

    Our reaction to a wasp or bee joining us for lunch is very telling of how we view all animals. Our interaction with creatures such as a wasp or a bee can tell us a lot about our general attitudes to animals. Our first thought when a wasp joins us for an outdoor meal or…

  • Did Flagler Humane Society encourage dressing up animals

    Did Flagler Humane Society encourage dressing up animals

    Should animal welfare condone the dressing up of animals. The Flagler Humane Society in Florida USA received worldwide coverage of their recent “creative” and “ingenious” scheme to find homes for three of their left behind elderly dogs by dressing them up as old people. Such an action raises the question of whether animal welfare organisations…