Quotes on Pet Animals

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.