by Jane Broccolo | Aug 11, 2026 | All Posts
Your cat. Your dog. Your gerbil. Animals we call our pets, are not our pets. They are our partners. We do not own the animals we bring home to live with us. We...
by Jane Broccolo | Jun 25, 2025 | All Posts, Animal Intelligence, Missing Pets, The Human-Animal Connection
Dennis Alameda, a neighbor we had not ever met or seen before, saw the 15-yearold dachshund we call, Sweetgrass, on June 22nd, the 5th morning of her gone missing. Thanks to his mother Mabel showing him our flyer, he was keeping an eye out for the badly missed...
by Jane Broccolo | Mar 10, 2025 | All Posts, Animal Rights, The Human-Animal Connection, The Human-Animal Self, Veganism
Thank you for remembering we are all connected—not just to our pets and human relatables. The global mess we’re in is the outward expression of humanity’s disconnect from our empathetic animal selves. Please be vegan. Not just for the sake of goats. But...
by Jane Broccolo | Feb 16, 2025 | All Posts, Animal Rights, The Human-Animal Connection, Veganism
Thanks to the smarts of this lobster on death row in a French market, the acquatic innocent is now free thanks to Emanuelle. A woman with exceptional reverence for the crustacean caught in the net of human disconnect, ignorance, and greed. On the surface, an...
by Jane Broccolo | Feb 14, 2025 | All Posts, Animal Communication, The Human-Animal Connection, The Human-Animal Self
An awesome video invoked a knee jerk reaction in me so strong that I have to immediately make noise here about the word, noise, in the reel’s headline, “Weird Animal Noises”. A cute, but unjustified choice of words to describe the heartfelt sounds of...
by Jane Broccolo | Nov 20, 2024 | All Posts, Animal Communication, Insects, Veganism
In nature, I tune into individuals of plant, animal, and insect species. Sometimes, my sensory experience is so unexpected, so awe inspiring that I cannot feel anything less than ‘greatful’. First, I feel the expected burst of love within my heart...
