In the spring and summer we get scorpions in our house all the time. We also have a family of Roadrunners in our backyard. Deer come by all the time; in fact we don't plant any flowers because they will get eaten. We also have possums, raccoons, mice, foxes, fireants, mockingbirds, buzzards, hawks, cardinals, titmice, woodpeckers, snakes--including rattlesnakes, tarantulas and dogs and cats.


The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
~Jeremy Bentham