There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow would….

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box..

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort..

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw..

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….

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically..

I will write another book if I feel like it..

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security..

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 I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously..

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us..

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..

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..