Tue Jun 6, 2023 – 9:00 am EDTMon Jun 5, 2023 – 4:20 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Regular readers of Jonathon Van Maren’s LifeSiteNews column, which has been running since 2014, know him as a pithy and incisive culture warrior and critic.
But readers – and listeners of The Van Maren Show – are unlikely to know that the writer and activist, who will emcee the Canadian edition of LifeSite’s 25th anniversary gala next month, is an avid animal enthusiast.
“I’m obsessed with animals,” said Van Maren. At the moment, he has “a hedgehog, peacocks, pheasants, ducks, chickens, and a bottle-fed lamb.”
Being pro-life, Van Maren also loves children. And his own are benefiting from friendship with his animals.
“The lamb follows the kids everywhere because they bottle-feed it,” he said. “The peacocks enjoy strutting around fanning their plumage – the only mean animal that the kids are scared of is a black rooster that occasionally attacks trespassers. When the hedgehog tires of them he merely curls into a ball and sticks out his spines.”
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