The REIKIDOGS Blog

I love my boy. I love everything he does which includes, in no special order: 1. Trying to sleep on top of me some time in the middle of the night every night 2. Doing the conga across the room every time I stand and he thinks I'm about to dance 3. His childlike fascination with what gets flushed down the toilet 4. His stealing the shirt I wore during the day and holding it in his mouth for an hour until he falls asleep 5. His bathroom escort service -- he has to run in ahead of me and touch with his nose whatever fixture I'm about to use, take a few steps back, and guide me in 6. His insistence at the dog park that every human being naturally wants to meet him 7. His never snapping at the macaw who tries to maim him 8. His making everything in life a game but being perfectly obedient when he needs to 9. His insistence on throwing stuffed animals into the bathtub full of water and when I don't respond, his balancing them on my shoulder, stepping back, and waiting for me to ...

Selectively Sacred The Ethics of Institutional and Commercial Animal Use Lisa Shaw Presented to Dr. Bryan Froehle St. Thomas University 12/8/10 Observing: The treatment of commercially and industrially used animals, held against their will and acted upon by human beings who wield power under the banner of biblically assigned dominion has perpetuated a society in which nearly all of us by virtue of our surface innocence are in fact complicit in their suffering by our blind consumption of products. Who has never taken a pharmaceutical drug to combat a physical condition? What woman has never used mascara? How many of us have indulge with delight in a Thanksgiving feast of tofurkey? In the past 25 years the public has been made more aware of our speciesism, negligence, and abuse of animals who are bred and held captive to serve human need by radical organizations such as PETA and the Humane Society of the United States, who often go to extremes and wind up inadvertently declaring war even...