I love to fish, and I love to eat fish more than I love to fish. But I have to tell you this story...
In the mid-70's I was visiting a Buddhist temple on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. A common practice by visitors was to buy crackers and feed them to the beautiful, multi-colored fish called Koi (Japanese Carp). While I was feeding the fish, the caretaker, an old Japanese man, approached me and said, "Fish are very smart". Without waiting for a response he broke off a piece of my cracker, looked at a fish located in the outer part of the mass of hungry fish, and said, "Charlie!" Immediately a fish literally crawled over the top of the other fish to the man, and opened his mouth. The man place the cracker into the fish's mouth, and said nonchalantly, "That's Charlie". It was truly magical. I thought I was in a parallel universe.
I have a large Comet in my backyard pond named "Moe".
If you call to him/her/who knows for sure, he/she/it appears and will take flakes from your fingers.
The only problem is that Moe is greedy and nips.
[as in "gimme Moe!" "gimme Moe"]....;))
That's nuthin. The cow, the goat, the lamb bred by the kids in the farm programs are very expressive. What kid doesn't like a little piglet? And yet the farm programs exist to teach the kids about raising cattle for slaughter. Some don't survive that experience, and join PETA (I guess). I can understand wishing to avoid the slaughterhouse method, the assembly-line butchery and waste. Ideally, an animal is killed and most every bit eaten or otherwise used. That's difficult to do in the centralized assembly-line ship and delivery channels that were created in the 19th century. Entire animals are killed, literally to no purpose. Many are killed to no purpose. But to argue that they should never be killed is immoral. Animals are NOT 'people too'. They specifically are not. And it may be a moral gesture to be a vegetarian. I don't doubt that. But for a vegetarian to try and turn the reality of the world upside down is a lie, is wrong, and is immoral. And that describes PETA. They are not doing the Lord's work.