I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

a great way to bring about animal liberation.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

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.

I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.