100 FAVORITE PICS

An inter-species
LOVE puddle
with a piggie pillow.

"SISTERS -
female to female"
photo credit JoAnne McArthur 

Love and Pleasure
is felt by
sentient animals of all species

Golden Rees (many moons ago) and Braveheart (a free-living forest deer) enjoying each other's beauty, grace, and gentleness.

Love that is shared between species is absolutely thrilling.

People often say "you pig" in a derogatory sense. But; pigs are friendly and intelligent. They're precious friends; not food.

Kisses; my beloved. She's been living without harming other animals for 13 of her 14 years. She eats a vegan diet. She was trained not to kill animals. That's the only training she has ever had. It wasn't hard for her to do. She looks the same as in this photo taken over a decade ago!
http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com

(Kisses passed away. She lived 14.5 years or so, we don't know for sure as she was a rescue. We know she lived 13.5 years with me as a vegan, and she looked to be about 1 year old when we found her. Kisses was the best friend I've had.)

Calves are innocent gentle babies. They're not "veal",
not a thing that you can,
with conscience, drag from his/her mother at birth so
you can steal his/her milk.
This young child has grasped what adults
have not yet figured out.

Somebody found my avocado! He or she is a ground-squirrel of the western U.S.
http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com

A kid and a kid
lost in
mutual admiration.

I could not think of
harming either of these
precious beings.

"Inter-species Slumber Party"

"The Way it Should Be"
Jenny Brown of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary and her bovine friend. http://woodstocksanctuary.org

A Monarch butterfly
takes her first flight
from my hand.
http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com
http://veganpoet.com

Words could not do justice
to a moment like this. I was
lucky enough to be there. There was a legend of "the vegans" in the woods among the deer. The only other people they knew were hunters.
http://gentleworld.org

This woman understands
that pigs
are not pork.

I'm touching hands with a ground squirrel and a chipmunk in a forest. We got to know each other for some time before they came up to me and ate from my hands. We lived together; harmoniously.
http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com

Love
is not
limited
by species.

This furry friend found
a cozy warm bed
for a cat-nap.

Like humans,
many species of animals
live as a family unit.

Evolve Campaigns - U.K. - for many more fantastic campaign banners and photos.

www.facebook.com/EVOLVECampaigns

An orangutan protector holding his friend.
http://orangutanprotection.com

Do unto ALL sentient animals as you would have them do unto you.

Hummingbird bed.

Beauty
and the
Beauty

Real "Necking"

Some photos are so beyond the beyond, that a caption only gets in the way.

"Portrait of a Duckling"

Photo credit: Daniel Hennessy, 
Brisbane, Australia

A sane reaction to a lamb.

We can talk to animals; and they can talk to us. Some people just don't listen to the language other animal's speak. But this boy does, and so do I. He reminds me of me.

Matteo Walch of Australia and his Marmot friend.

Angel Flinn of Gentle World
with Poof the Magic rabbit.
http://gentleworld.org

Hands of rescuers reaching
to grab a beagle puppy that
is being rescued from the
Green Hill Beagle Liberation.

purrrfect

A face not only a mother
could Love!

Who's happier, Sarah Lux, Harrison, or me looking at this awesome photo?

partners in time

Soul at age 3; a healthy beautiful
vegan child - and my friend.

Douglas getting a big hug. Photo from the website: www.ChallengeOpression.com

A great photographer not only precisely catches imagery, but captures a feeling. This photo defines good photography.

What a magnificent sight!
Four dogs found
a beam of light.

Vegan-fed baby and
vegan-fed dog
playing
"stickie"
together.
Photo credit: the Rees's

We shared life with a Golden Retriever (this is not her) that also protected rabbits. But she didn't come to us that way, she learned a new behavior. People train animals to do all sorts of silly meaningless tricks for human amusement. Animals, including humans, can be trained "not to harm" other animals.

At a sanctuary, rather than feasting on turkeys at Thanksgiving, they offer a feast to their rescued turkeys.

Amazing digital moment of a BlueJay family.

Evolve Campaigns, U.K.

www.facebook.com/EVOLVECampaigns

"Best Friends;
looking outward together,
in the same direction."

"contagious kitty smile"

Beautiful; a golden retriever (vegan) in the golden light, with her friend, Summer.
http://gentleworld.org

Nose to Nose,
Cheek to Cheek
The language of Love
is the one they speak.

Animals have lives
that they want to live.

A 3 year old often has a better grasp on the fact that animals are sentient beings.

A mother's love is felt
throughout the animal kingdom.

Cow Kisses and Caresses

They're not "fighting
like cats and dogs" -
they are hugging
like cats and dogs.

This guy looks like a
Disney character. He's a
ground-squirrel I befriended while living in a national forest. He's munching on cantaloupe seeds.

They're all Lovie-Dovie
          (pun intended)

Bill and Lou; two oxen have lived on Green Mountain College property for 10 years, and have become mascots; known by name, and very sadly, scheduled to me slaughtered end of Oct. 2012. Vine Sanctuary and others are fighting to save them.

There's no hiding the
friendship felt between
Matteo Walch of Australia
and his Marmot friends.

The new babysitter.

Baba had
separation anxiety,
to the day
he passed away.
So did we.
We didn't want
to separate. He
lived to age 17.
Photo credit:
Sky Weil;
Gentle World
http://gentleworld.org

Smiling and looking
each other in the eyes,
What a friendly human-
to-sheep surprise.

paw and hand that intertwine
paw of his and hand of mine

At sanctuaries; where cows and other animals are not seen as a commodity, a resource, a thing - but as the truly sweet, gentle, beautiful being that they truly are.

Juliet Gellatley - U.K.
and her rescued friend.

Turkeys feasting at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary's "ThanksLiving" event where turkey's are not eaten, but instead treated to a feast.
http://woodstocksanctuary.org/

Friends of a different color
and species; it's not
an issue for them.

A mother's Love lives in all
kinds of sentient species.

Reverence for life; especially perceptually aware, conscious, sentient animals.

Koala cuddles.

Have kitten, will travel.

"I won't last a day...
....without you."

I know the sweetest part of me from holding you.

Animals are my friends;
to protect and respect.

A deer friend

Summer (long time vegan) kissing Valiant;
Gentle World's
very gentle dog friend;
fed a vegan diet.
http://gentleworld.org

Australian demonstration

photo copyright: Elias Delphinus

A Monarch emerging
from the chrysalis.
The green cocoon
turns transparent
and then
magically
fades away,
and a butterfly is born.

We're not
the only animals
that embrace.

All animals
have a
mother
and a
father

"A fawn at dawn"
photo credit: Butterflies Katz

Jenny Brown of Woodstock
Farm Animal Sanctuary with
her friend Ralphie.
http://woodstocksanctuary.org/

I loved to feel the touch
of this ground squirrel's
little hands
on mine.
http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com

John Unger and Schoep wade in Lake Superior. The photo went viral on the internet and their story was in the news. I've hardly ever seen a photo that depicts Love as well as this one.

Colleen Patrick Goudreau
and friend.
www.compassionatecook.com/

Salute to the Sun

Happy Hippo Mama
and baby

photo credit: 
Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary

www.peacefulprairie.org

Real Men are Vegan
Photo credit:
http://vegansanctuary.blogspot.com

Manatees wouldn't think
of hurting you. Please don't
hurt them or anyone.

Ground squirrels store
food in their cheeks and
then take it and bury it to
store for the winter months.

Praying the human race,
will at long last,
learn to respect
"otter" animals.

Photo: United Poultry Concerns
http://upc-online.org

Floating with
manatees.

Sleeping puppies and piglet

dolphin kissing dog

At a sanctuary, a friendship
formed between a rescued turkey and a goat.

Fish face.

We, Animals - JoAnne McArthur

Real men are kind to animals.