But I make sure my animals aren't a threat to the community, either.

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When I set up the schoolroom with my stuffed animals in my bedroom, I became a teacher.

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Ms. L. REDGRAVE: I loved them and you were given a particularly beautiful, very long-legged sort of Bambi, a little deer, and I went in to you carrying my collection of glass animals.

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Conceivably, if I was ignorant, I could get out of my car and touch these animals.

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Animals, including my dog, have certainly enjoyed the lard, and it still looks and smells good enough to have a fry up with.

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My mind defaulted to circus images of animals (me, most notably) jumping through hoops every time they re-entered my sales office throughout what might be a five-month period while their home was being built.

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Guiding us with his machete, he pointed out tiny owls, arachnids that could piggy-back my kids to school, bizarre animals that only have names in the lingua franca.

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One of my passions was exercising and being with animals.

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Those who know me well are very aware of my well-publicized care and love of animals.

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More than 50 Tumblr blogs have scored deals this way, from Animals With Casts to Dear Old Love to My Parents Were Awesome.

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My place can be anywhere, even the place where they keep the animals ...

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Most farm animals can handle all but the most brutal cold, but not my aging donkey.

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He really challenged my conservative ideas and ideology about meat eating by talking about the way we treat animals, and as a conservative that really got to me, and spoke to me.

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Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

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All my formulas are developed by top veterinarians and nutritionists, and are based only on the dietary needs of the animals.

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