Famous Animal Quotes
I hope you find these animal quotes and pet sayings enjoyable & inspirational. If you have any favourite pet quotes about our animal companions you would like me to post on these pages, please let me know!________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." ~ Martin Buber"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanual Kant"My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet." ~ Edith Wharton"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution." ~ Hazel Nicholson"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals" ~ Anonymous"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" ~ Theophile Gautier"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras"There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat." ~ Wesley Bates"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." ~ Anonymous"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us" ~ Robert Louis Stevenson"A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself." ~ Josh Billings"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to." ~ Joe Gores"A canter is the cure for all evil." ~ Benjamin Disraeli"Dogs have owners, cats have staff." ~ Anonymous"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." ~ Ann Landers"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat" ~ Warren Eckstein"A house is not a home without a pet." ~ Anonymous"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." ~ Jean Cocteau"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans" ~ James Herriot"I think I could turn and live with animals, they areso placid and self-contained,I stand and look at them long and long." ~ Walt Whitman"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." ~ Ben Williams"A dog maybe a man's best friend but a horse made history..." ~ Anonymous"No heaven will not ever Heaven be;Unless my cats are there to welcome me." ~ Anonymous"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in?I think that is how dogs spend their lives." ~ Sue Murphy"To err is human, to forgive, canine" ~ Anonymous"To err is human, to purr, feline" ~ Robert Byrne"A horse gallops with his lungs,Perseveres with his heart,And wins with his character." ~ Tesio"A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse!" ~ Shakespeare"All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it." ~ Samuel Butler"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'" ~ Dave Barry"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before." ~ Robert Lynd"The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic." ~ Henry Ward Beecher"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~ Mahatma Gandhi"The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him." ~ Rudyard Kipling"If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people." ~ James Thurber"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." ~ Samuel Butler"I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." ~ Hippolyte Taine"Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one" ~ Anonymous"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky"A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue." ~ Anonymous"The dog represents all that is best in man." ~ Etienne Charlet"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." ~ John Berry"And God took a handful of southernly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse." ~ Bedouin Legend"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." ~ Andrew A. Rooney"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." ~ Chinese Proverb"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." ~ Mary Bly"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." ~ George Elliot"The Trouble with a kitten isThatEventually it becomes aCat"~ Ogden Nash"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too." ~ Samuel Butler"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."~ Abraham Lincoln"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because you lap is warmer." ~ Alfred North Whitehead"...he will be our friend for always and always and always." ~ Rudyard Kipling"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much." ~ Thornton Wilder"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her." ~ Montaigne
Circuses = Abuse of Animals.
Think Positive......
Bears, elephants, tigers, and other animals do not voluntarily ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. They don't perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to; they perform them because they're afraid of what will happen if they don't.
For animals in circuses, there is no such thing as "positive reinforcement"—only varying degrees of punishment and deprivation. To force them to perform these meaningless and physically uncomfortable tricks, trainers use whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, bullhooks, and other painful tools of the trade.
In the Ringling Bros. circus, elephants are beaten, hit, poked, prodded, and jabbed with sharp hooks, sometimes until bloody. Ringling breaks the spirit of elephants when they're vulnerable babies who should still be with their mothers. Unsuspecting parents planning a family trip to the circus don't know about the violent training sessions with ropes, bullhooks, and electric shock prods that elephants endure. Heartbreaking photos reveal how Ringling Bros. circus trainers cruelly force baby elephants to learn tricks, and it's not through a reward system, as they claim.
Cruel Training
Circuses easily get away with routine abuse because no government agency monitors training sessions. Undercover video footage of animal training sessions has shown that elephants are beaten with bullhooks and shocked with electric prods, big cats are dragged by heavy chains around their necks and hit with sticks, bears are whacked and prodded with long poles, and chimpanzees are kicked and hit with riding crops. Carson & Barnes trainers have even been documented using blowtorches on elephants.
Constant Confinement
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus boasts that its three units travel more than 25,000 miles as the circus tours the country for 11 months each year. Ringling's own documents reveal that on average, elephants are chained for more than 26 hours straight and are sometimes continually chained for as many as 60 to 100 hours. Tigers and lions usually live and travel in cages that provide barely enough room for the animals to turn around, often with two big cats crammed into a single cage. In July 2004, Clyde, a young lion traveling with Ringling, died in a poorly ventilated boxcar while the circus was crossing the Mojave Desert, where temperatures reached at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Clyde likely died a miserable death from heatstroke and dehydration. Previously, two tigers with Ringling injured themselves while attempting to escape from their cages in an overheated boxcar.
Public Danger
Frustrated by years of beatings, bullhooks, and shackles, some elephants snap. And when an elephant rebels against a trainer's physical dominance, trainers cannot protect themselves—let alone the public.
In 1994, an elephant named Tyke killed her trainer and injured 12 spectators before being gunned down while running terrified through downtown Honolulu (she was shot almost 100 times). In 1992, Officer Blayne Doyle was forced to shoot and kill Janet, an elephant who charged out of the Great American Circus arena with five children on her back.
In more than 35 dangerous incidents since 2000, elephants have bolted from circuses, run amok through streets, crashed into buildings, attacked members of the public, and killed and injured handlers.
In speaking before members of Congress about the dangers of elephant rampages, Doyle lamented, "I have discovered, much to my alarm, that once an elephant goes out of control, nothing can be done. It is not a predictable or preventable accident. The only thing that can be done—and even this is a danger to the public—is to get a battery of police officers in with heavy weapons and gun the elephant down."
Circus Bans.
Because of concerns about animal mistreatment and public safety, a
growing number of communities are banning or restricting the use of
animals in circuses.
Animal-Free Circuses
We applaud trapeze artists, jugglers, clowns, tightrope walkers, and acrobats, but let's leave animals in peace. The Latest
Shows on Earth—Cirque du Soleil, the New Pickle Family Circus, Cirque
Éloize, and others—are exciting and innovative circuses that dazzle
audiences without animal acts.
Click here
for a list of animal-free circuses.
INFO BY: http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/circuses.aspx
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