Like most east coast rust belt cities, Baltimore has a big problem with ferals. Baltimore has the best people in the U.S.! I know I’m at risk from pissing off everyone I’ve been lucky enough to meet elsewhere in this country but who cares? I leave in just over a week’s time. Anyway, who can resist this adorable photograph of a mother feral and one of the four kittens? Baltimore’s Best — Jennifer Gately and Peggy Nemoff and the cat-loving Jolene — rescued them and got them into safe homes. They will be spayed/neutered (the kittens are feral but should adjust to human kindness) and the mom will probably go to a farm where she will be cared for.
Kim Stallwood is an independent scholar and author on animal rights. His forthcoming book, Animal Dharma, explores what it means to care deeply about animals. Starting in 1976, he has held leadership positions with some of the world’s foremost organisations in the UK and US, including CIWF, BUAV, PETA, The Animals’ Agenda, Animals and Society Institute and Minding Animals International. A vegetarian since 1974 when as a student he worked in a chicken slaughterhouse. A vegan since 1976. His evil twin is the Grumpy Vegan.
New Book!
Kim Stallwood's forthcoming book explores what it means to care deeply about animals and discovers how we can live peacefully with ourselves and others by proposing four key values: truth, compassion, nonviolence and interbeing.