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 | May 28, 2023 | All Posts, Animal Communication, Animal Intelligence, Insects, The Human-Animal Connection, Veganism
My recent letter to the New York Times Magazine editors:”Thank you so much for your article about seeing bugs for ‘who’ they are. Not inferior to humans or other animals. Just different, each with their own unique skills and sensitivities.”Since I...
by Jane Broccolo | May 8, 2019 | All Posts, Animal Intelligence, The Human-Animal Connection
Sweetgrass, the Workaholic Dachshund, is a grassroots kind of female. Need I say more, except that it’s pretty obvious why she chose her name. She loves digging down to, and beyond, her grass roots. The sweetest thing on earth to do, in her opinion. I could go...
