the science, the streets, and the stubborn will to coexist.
Are we doing right by them?
Hi, creatures. This is a newsletter about the place where humans and animals actually meet — the pet on the sofa, the stray at the gate, the animal on the farm — and the one stubborn question that runs beneath all of it. I'm building animal awareness the slow way: through understanding and logic, not sentiment. Read the pieces. Share them if they move you. And most of all — mull it over.
The case
One long argument, two impactful images.
The comic
The whole point, in panels. Just read the comic.
A good moment
Proof that coexistence works.
From the science
Two findings worth carrying around.
City notes
What's happening to the animals around you.
The Missing Please
We spend a decade teaching a child exactly what another person's comfort costs them. We never once run the lesson for anything that isn't a person.
The Donkey Collapse
The machine took the job. It has never once taken the animal. An argument for retirement, not rescue.
Who Opened the Gate
We insist animals understand nothing — right up until they inconvenience us. Then, suddenly, we put them on trial.
What the Cow Cannot Untie
A cow can't untie the bag. So who filled her stomach with 71 kilograms of plastic — and why is the fastest fix a human hand?
Everyone agrees animals deserve better. Almost no one agrees on who is supposed to do something about it.
Fellow Creatures starts from a plain idea: in nearly every conflict between people and animals, the animal carries the consequence and the human holds the choice.
So the argument isn't about loving animals more. It's about looking, honestly, at the hand on the latch.
— written to be argued with, not just agreed with