Quotes About Animals

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.

Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

It's a commonly known fact that while cats can't stand ghosts, spiders love them.

As Winston Churchill said, "Dogs look up to you, Cats look down on you." It's just that I discovered that being looked at from both of those perspectives is where I want to be.

I have a weird thing with giraffes, I don't like their neck

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

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

They don't talk the same language as us. I don't mean that they don't speak English, but that their minds are different. They're like animals, and because I hate the sight and sound of them, and because you're a Britisher, I'm telling you to get out now while the going's good.

It would not be surprising if the villagers were afraid of these wild animals and tried to protect themselves from them, which would also explain why they had no doors or windows in their houses, so the animals could not get in that way. By using ladders, which the animals could not climb, the inhabitants were able to ensure their survival, at least from unwanted predators at night. No other explanation works as well.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

Twolegs are mousebrain

May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1)

I'm going to be really scared," he muttered. "I don't like badgers. Stormpaw is the meanest cat in ThunderClan!

Twolegs are mad. Even the smallest kit knows that.

Tawnypelt pointed out. "I doubt they'd follow us. They must be quite stupid, or they wouldn't let Twolegs on their backs.

slower than WindClan, duller than RiverClan, scrawnier than ShadowClan.

we'll end up in the Twoleg horseplace

They were black, white, and gray, with black around their eyes and white around their muzzles," Leafstar replied. "They walk on four legs like we do, but they can stand on their hind paws like a Twoleg. And they can grip things like a Twoleg, with their front and back paws. Their ears are like ours, but they have short, pointed muzzles like a fox.

It's one of those StarClan-cursed stoats!

Right, let's see if we've frightened off all the prey in the forest

It's silverthorn. A Twoleg vine," Finleap explained. "They use it to make barriers around their land. The thorns keep animals trapped in their meadows. Only StarClan knows why they left a bundle of it here.