Non-Human Mammals; The Other 98%

10/05/2025

Sweet in so many ways!

12/02/2025

Oh how much I love this! If you have a relationship with another creature, even if it's a house pet, put the picture here and tell us how you came about to love each other.

There is nothing like unconditional love from an animal. Because they are honest to their cores. If they love you, you have earned the praise of angels. Enjoy your little part of heaven!

03/01/2025

Tenderness comes from an open heart; no matter what species you are.

19/12/2024

This is so simple; all creatures want to live.
None want pain.
None want suffering.

Whether animals think about death the way we do, there is no doubt they recognize the violence that is soon to befall them.

Shame on us...

12/11/2024

THIS! What we do NOT know about this planet and all the remarkable, magical, creatures that dwell upon it, is mind-boggling. I love hearing about the intelligence of others! It makes me so happy to be a part of such an amazing consortium of life!

If you find this interesting, then take a couple hours and watch the movie: MY OCTOPUS TEACHER. It had me sobbing with loving kindness for the struggles of others and their need to carve out a tiny spot to call their own, either in water, on land, or in the air.

Bless the beasts and children of this world:

It’s not easy when you're dealing with arms that think for themselves.

23/09/2024

I love how sometimes, animals teach us how to be human! Kindness is indeed, the Universal language of all the earth!
AND I love that there are so many other people on the planet who understand that life is precious and should be protected.
Bravo to the wisdom of kind hearts!

22/09/2024

Ah Fall! Um, well that's a little foreboding; let's call it AUTUMN! Actually I love this season best. Clean, crisp air, beautiful colors of one last hurrah by a Mother Nature tired of the heat, ready to settle down for a long winter's rest!

And we humans, all about planning and celebrating our beautiful upcoming holiday season! Makes me think animals are at peace too, those who survive the hunt of others in their kingdom.

I love finding portals to their world, ones where we can extend our compassion for just a moment, to feel what it was to be a part of such an awesome planet before we began to hide in our little abodes and separate ourselves from the vitality of all that is real.

SAVE THE PLANET; they used to say! Here is a way to give back to "Mom" after the fires of our celebrations have become crackling embers in our memory banks!

11/09/2024

Butterflies are magic, extraordinary little creatures. They are also so powerful that when they flap their wings, they affect weather patterns across the globe. This is true and is actually referred to as "the butterfly effect."

Having said that, how incumbent is it upon every individual on the planet to make her little space that she inhabits safe for all creatures?

I was driving home from the saddle shop in Illinois one day when I found myself accidentally driving down a two-lane country road I'd never been on before. There a little ways ahead was a huge lump of dirt in the middle of the lane. As I got closer, I realized it was no lump; it was a giant bullfrog frozen in the middle of the road.

I pulled over and tried to get it to continue on its way lest it get run over. Several other cars also stopped, coming from the other direction to make sure the little guy didn't get run over. I nudged it from the back a little and using the quietest, sweet voice I could, talked it into moving forward, and off it finally hopped into the bushes!

The other cars went on and then all of a sudden, as I was getting into my own, the road rumbled and shook; I turned to see two giant semis barrelling down the road. I was stunned. Had the bullfrog remained frozen in fear, had I not accidentally gone astray, it would certainly have lost its life.

I continue to rescue animals, and work hard to make sure all creatures on my little piece of heaven on earth, here where I live, are safe from harm. But every so often, I wonder about the little froggie, and how a wrong turn presented me with an opportunity to protect and save a seemingly insignificant life; insignificant to humans who shamefully believe they have "dominion" over all.

It's really that easy. Love, protect, save; rest in the storm and start over again. And yes, I do the same for creatures I'm afraid of; they deserve to live too.

13/03/2024

Learning things like this pulls my heart into millions of pieces that each fit into its own emotional cell; so many emotions that have no name.

🥺🥺🥺

24/02/2024

03/06/2023

It made me laugh the other day when someone said in conversation, "animals don't feel things; it's just a chemical reaction to stimulus."

I laughed incredulously because I was wondering what they thought THEIR reactions to things were if not chemical; could it be we are made of some other non-fleshy substance--silicone, kryptonite?

The reason we are all called "mammals," is because we share many qualities of Nature and react in similar fashion. When one spends any amount of time in Nature, or around animals in general, she will discover more and more similarities that we share with them.

This brings me to the point that while humans have a way of extending their desires and goals to insatiable and infinite destinations--whereas most other species do not--our feelings and desires emanate from the same kind of genetic interactions that animals have. And the truth is, yes they have them, and even more importantly, a mother's love is a powerful thing regardless of whether you have two legs or four.

The purpose of this knowledge then is to understand that a mother of another species is driven just as we are to insure the survival of her young, to protect it as best as she can, and to love it as much, or more than she loves herself and THIS truth is embedded within us all, our genetic make-up insists upon it.

This kind of knowledge should evoke a rush of mercy from our hearts, a call to protect the most vulnerable in our world: those who have no voice. So many sages we have known throughout history have called on humanity to rise to the call of "honorable stewardship" of the world around us.

So far the "dominion" of others has carried a mendacious burden of cruelty, indifference, and anything BUT the humanity we all believe we embody through our saints and messiahs.