If you happen to visit Shannon Keith’s Los Angeles office, there’s a good chance you’ll meet a gray-and-white cat named Amelia. As the resident office cat, Amelia doesn’t give visitors much choice. “She’s like the queen of the office,” Keith tells MNN. “She greets everybody.” It wasn’t always like that. In fact, when Amelia arrived at the Beagle Freedom Project just a few months ago, the first thing she did was find a hiding place. Because, you see, for much of Amelia’s life, human hands were wrapped in white gloves.…
Day: August 1, 2018
An Advocate for Saving Laboratory Animals and Helping People Live a Cruelty-Free Life
A native of Studio City, California, Shannon Keith was raised as an only child where animals were always her best friends. “I grew up with all kinds of rescue animals – dogs and cats, and animal we’d rescue from the street, including injured birds and such. My mother was very encouraging of that. So it was a very nurturing atmosphere that cared for animals.” By the time she got to college she decided to become an animal rights attorney. “When I first heard that animals were considered chattel, meaning a…