RickBogle.com

I’ve been mostly vegan since the summer of 1972, after talking with an Eco-tourist on Andros Island in the Bahamas, but it wasn’t until the mid 1990s that I began speaking up for animals in public venues .

I’ve never doubted that there was someone looking back at me when I’ve been around animals, and I’ve been around lots of them. When I was young, I probably caught a few hundred toads, snakes, tortoises, and bugs of every sort. I never harmed them, I was just curious about them.

I’ve known and cared for horses, dogs, goats, chickens, cats, rats, a gerbil, a number of fish, crabs, sea anemones, an orphaned putty-nosed guenon, and a few chimpanzees.