Abigail | Pukekohe
“Picking up an abandoned kitten at Maccas, probably. That’s probably the best thing that’s happened.
So I was taking my brother through the drive-through just in Puke, and this about 10 week old kitten, she looks a bit younger, because she’s a bit malnourished, came running out under my car. So, I literally parked the car in the drive-through and jumped out, leaving my brother going, what’s going on? I ended up getting this other guy to help me chase it through the carpark, to grab it, and then took it home, and no-one’s come forward looking for it yet, so it’s going to actually go and live with a friend of mine. My current cat is also a rescue, and I have taken in a feral kitten before, but we’re not allowed to keep any more pets, so, therefore, has to go somewhere else, but I very much am a cat person.
Value-wise; I’m not sure. For me I guess my values are always being interested in learning different things and trying to show compassion for things. It’s probably a mix of those two, yeah. My interest in learning and that, well I’m an artist, and I have a big passion for conservation and animal sciences, especially animal cognition, which is a very new field of science. It’s about 10 years old now. It’s about how animals think, and what’s actually going on inside their minds; what they’re capable of, because it’s always been something that’s been dismissed. It’s been dismissed or it’s been exaggerated, and now we’re finally getting a field of science to work out what’s actually going on. So, I find that very interesting.
I sort of grew up a little bit all over; I was born in Waiheke, and then we moved to Hamilton, and then Glenbrook, and then Pukekohe. So, sort of all over, but mostly Auckland.”
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