My respond to PETA: When I First Fell in Love With Animals

I didn't like animals until I pass through a very difficult moment in my house back in my hometown Venezuela. I needed to go out of my house before I expected, so I went to live with an aunt, who I wasn't close to. Anyway, this aunt had a poodle named Coco and even though he wasn't that friendly because they didn't teach him to be that way, and I wasn't an animal lover at all, we started to get along great. He was with me in my hardest times, he was the only one that cried and laughed with. Every time I came back from the University he got sooo... excited. I used to take him out every day al least three times a day. Anyway, unexpectedly I started to love this magnificent creature and with that I started to care so much for all the stray dogs. I couldn't resist seen them having such a hard time without me doing anything. So I started to pick here and there a few stray dogs and found homes for them. Most of the cases resulted well but some didn't. After that, my thesis in order to obtain my bachelor's degree in Philosophy was about Ecology Ethics, where I tried to extend part of John Rawls theory of justice to nature (animals & environment). I thought that it was necessary to treat nature with justice as well as we intend to relate to humans. Although I couldn't conclude that, because Rawls theory of Justice only refers to justice when he talks about humans, I did determine that the principle of RESPECT should always be consider when we humans relate to non - humans. We can't just do what we want to do without considering the consequences of our acts especially when they interfere with nature.
Today my strongest passion is the animal welfare. I’m concerned about all the animals. I’m vegetarian and intend one day to have an animal sanctuary where I can have animals that can be rescued from zoos, circus, from people that abuse them. It’s a constant fight against people that destroy nature.