Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.