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    Horn Hoof Feather Soul: A Year in the Life at a Farmed Animal Sanctuary in Photos
    Horn Hoof Feather Soul: A Year in the Life at a Farmed Animal Sanctuary in Photos
    Horn Hoof Feather Soul: A Year in the Life at a Farmed Animal Sanctuary in Photos
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    Horn Hoof Feather Soul: A Year in the Life at a Farmed Animal Sanctuary in Photos

    By Mark Peters

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    Heartwarming photos of chickens, cows, pigs and other rescued farmed animals revealing personalities candid and diverse. Like dogs and cats, other animals experience a range of emotion similar to our own. The photos in Horn Hoof Feather Soul show a side of farmed animals most people don’t get to see.

    Abused, hoarded, kept in small and backyard farms without shelter, scheduled for slaughter -- the animals in this book share similar stories of neglect at the hands of their human “owners,” but also, fortuitously, triumphantly, a moment of compassion when someone stood up for the animals and brought them to a sanctuary created for them where they can live out their lives with fresh food and clean water, knowing only peace and loving kindness.

    The photos in this ebook are separated from the stories so the reader can appreciate the animals as they are now: resilient, healed. The stories describing where the animals came from are linked to the photos, so you can appreciate the road they traveled to finally reach home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Peters
    Release dateAug 21, 2015
    ISBN9781311169488
    Horn Hoof Feather Soul: A Year in the Life at a Farmed Animal Sanctuary in Photos
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    Mark Peters

    "I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Anonymous Mark Peters is a photographer and vegan who discovered the beauty of rescued farmed animals after encountering a rooster named Harrison and a turkey named Opal at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary. Mark lives in Baltimore, MD, with his wife Alisa and their dogs Chompers, Pudgie and Schmoo.

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      Fantastic book. I love animals so much. Heartbreaking they get treated like trash. Love these pics of rescued animals that will feel love for the rest of their life.

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    Horn Hoof Feather Soul - Mark Peters

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    Copyright © 2015 by Mark Peters.

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    Juliet

    To Alisa, who walks with me every step of this adventure -- and sometimes gives an affectionate nudge when I hesitate too long.

    And to the individual animals all over the world who deserve to live their own natural adventures.

    Alexander

    Introduction

    The gate latch ticked closed behind me in the thin early morning darkness. I rubbed my hands together to warm them, then returned to my car and rolled forward down the winding lane toward the sanctuary. The edge of my headlights reflected in the eyes of a small herd of startled, shadowy deer grazing in a meadow and I continued on, not wanting to scatter them.

    The lights were on in the colonial farmhouse when I parked. Of course they were. Dave and Terry keep farmer's hours. But what grows on this land feeds the heart, not the belly. I entered the cow pasture, the dry winter grass crackling under my sneakers. The paling sky illuminated a broad, sweeping parcel of land where horses and cows roamed and grazed in warmer months when the grass flourished.

    Clustered together around hay bales, the cows eyed me curiously as I approached them. Any other time of year, they could be found anywhere in the pasture -- or even, in summer time, off in the woods or drinking from a stream. But in coldest winter, they seemed to like the nourishment and predictability of the hay bales. I called softly to them in greeting. Good morning Charlotte. Hi Lily. And there's Mini-Moo! I called each one in turn. But where was blind Emily? In warmer months, she was a sojourner. She seemed fearless. On other visits, I'd found her with the grazing goats or by the front gate. She

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