Quotes About Animal care

At 12 years old, I raised a premature baby cow on our farm because her mom had died. I bottle-fed it every day, let it suck on my chin, and babied it until it was stable.

The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.

What's your job occupation? I am a zookeeper teaching sign language to blind Gorillas.

Then the bull shook himself, turned his head and looked at us. There was an awed whisper from one of the young men: "By gaw, it's working!" I enjoyed myself after that. I can't think of anything in my working life that has given me more pleasure than standing in that pen directing the life-saving jet and watching the bull savouring it.

You want them to have fun. If I don't like the way a horse looks, if he has his ears pinned back, I'll send him to the farm, let him go be a horse for a while.

Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.

When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.

I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me...... they are my children.

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

There must be something to acupuncture - after all you never see any sick porcupines.

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

We have a big garden; there's a swimming pool, and we keep chickens. I love them. I love getting up in the morning and collecting the eggs.

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.

I'm such an impulse buyer. I once went into a pet store for dog food and left with a fish tank and five fish. And yes, of course I forgot to buy dog food.

He looks like he needs worming.

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

One time I had to file the teeth of a carthorse. They're such gentle creatures.

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

My dad is a farmer, so I used to love watching 'All Creatures Great and Small' - that's where I got most of my death and drama.