Occupation: Veterinary Surgeon Birth: October 3, 1916 Death: February 23, 1995
Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like i….
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me..
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort..
I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically..
No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat..
I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside..
If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety..
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people rea….
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of t….
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love..
That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in….
Dogs like to obey. It gives them security..
I will write another book if I feel like it..
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us..
If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously..
At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sun….
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw..
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans..
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago..
Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing ….
It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to se….