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Animals/ Video

Circus Lion Freed From Cage Feels Earth Beneath His Paws For The First Time

Circus Lion Freed From Cage Feels Earth Beneath His Paws For The First Time

This beautiful lion, Will, had been forced to perform with a traveling circus for 13 years, only knowing life confined in a cramped cage. Then Rancho dos Gnomos Santuário rescued him and gave him a second chance at life. Here is the heartwarming footage of Will being freed from his cage, feeling the earth beneath him! Please share if this video makes you smile.…

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Animal Rights/ Politics

Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act

While backpacking along the Appalachian Trail this past spring, I made a brief stop to replenish my dwindling stock of vegan food in the sleepy town of Erwin, Tennessee. While there, I had a conversation with one of the locals who relished in recounting a bit of Erwin’s notorious history for me. Yet much to my dismay, the most poignant story was one involving the tragic end of a traveling…

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Animal Rights/ General

Colouring in cruelty

It’s time for my monthly ramblings from the world of vegan parenting… It’s been raining, and raining, and raining some more these last few weeks so we’ve been spending a lot of time colouring  in pictures.  Littlepixie is getting bored of her colouring book and my drawing skills are reasonably close to abysmal, I mean I know what I’m trying to draw, it’s just that our pencils are quite clearly…

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