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By Michael L. Tan
Brusco is a bulldog, or more precisely, a French bulldog, the type that invites cuddling, which he thoroughly enjoys and reciprocates by slobbering all over you. As bulldogs go, he snorts a lot so he sometimes ends up looking like he’s making tsismis, gossiping in your ear about all that’s been going on in the last few days with his humans. To entertain the kids at home, I’d occasionally interrupt Brusco and go, “And then?” or “Really?” and it’d look like he was picking up, continuing with his story.
Posted: April 2nd, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
As the new Pope’s namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, said, “All creatures are created from the same paternal heartbeat of God.” Christ’s teachings of mercy and compassion are made a mockery of by the continued confinement of Mali the elephant at the Manila Zoo. Would Jesus have tormented one of God’s creatures capable of feeling [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2013 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
The dolphin is that fish-like creature that performs tricks in oceanariums, such as jumping and turning somersaults in the air, balancing hoops and balls on their noses, or swimming with their bodies out of the water and only their tails submerged. Though it looks like a fish, it is a mammal like whales. It gives [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Crista M. Iguid
Kukoi was with our family for the last 13 years. She was such pure joy that the family wished that she be humanized, not to be a biped like us with arms for cuddling, but to have a larynx to at least voice her sentiments.
Posted: September 20th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Carol Buckley
When I first met Tina, a 33-year-old elephant, she was serving a life sentence in solitary confinement at the Greater Vancouver Zoo. She was born in captivity and had spent much of her life alone in a cramped, barren pen.
Posted: July 30th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
Rainforests cover only 6 percent of the earth’s land surface and yet biologists estimate that half the species of plants, animals and other organisms are found in tropical rainforests, according to Edward Wilson, a research professor at Harvard.
Posted: April 21st, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Talk of the Town | Read More »
Here I am again with begging hands outstretched for help, but we need to make everyone aware of what’s happening to the orangutans in Borneo.
Posted: April 8th, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Rica S. Facundo
This is a story of girl meets dog, but you should know upfront, that this is a love story.
Posted: February 20th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Rina Jimenez-David
Crocodiles or buwaya are once more in the news, but this time in their original incarnations and not their human versions. We’ll get to those in time. Crocodiles are back in the limelight after the capture of a 6.4-meter-long brackish water crocodile dubbed “Lolong” by the media and the local folk. Lolong, who it is [...]
Posted: September 27th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Ma. Socorro Carizza G. Ricarte
I was a bit hesitant at first, but the moment I saw him, I knew I wanted him to be mine. It was my grandmother’s idea. But while a part of me found it appealing, my practical side took over. We couldn’t buy a new dog. Having a new dog entails responsibility, not to mention [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
A posting to a popular news website shows a series of grisly photographs of a woman in China picking up a puppy off a sidewalk and roasting it alive. This is what Wikipedia has to say on such displays of active cruelty to animals: “One of the known warning signs of certain psychopathologies … is [...]
Posted: June 24th, 2011 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
I would like to point out some factual errors and a violation of journalistic ethics in Neal Cruz’s June 17 column titled “Cockfighting is cruelty to animals”: Cruz states: “Yet the cocks have no animosity against each other except that humans make them fight to satisfy their bloodlust.” This is false information and clearly not [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2011 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
