Famous Quotes & Sayings

People who move here from other areas don't realize that some wild animals need a pretty wide berth in order to survive. They don't have many other places to go.

People who let their animals run at large are going to have to step up and pay more.

Reasons for giving up the animals are various including moving home, not wanting the pets to distract the kids' study or simply because the dogs were too old or owners had no more patience for raising pets.

Our main focus is to move the long-term animals. We've had some of them a year.

The regulars are mostly people who raise livestock as a business. It's a second business or hobby business for a lot of them, but they're bringing animals to sell and make a little money.

Alexei Sayle

To know that these intelligent, sensitive animals are mocked, poisoned and even intentionally brain damaged, makes me full of shame.

Yeah they are young, they like to drink, but they are not party animals. They're not the type of people who would put themselves in danger -- especially Mark who served in Iraq.

We know two things. First, chimps were once more widely distributed. And second, these environments have changed dramatically in the last half million years. The chimps and all the other forest loving animals that lived with them became extinct, locally, because of this change.

Hannah Murray

I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

Unlike the people, ... the animals dont have a choice to leave, so we stay with them.

Unlike the people, ... the animals don't have a choice to leave, so we stay with them.

Unlike most animals - with some exceptions like beavers - we engineer our environment. So that allows us to hang on in places that would otherwise be singularly inhospitable.

Susan Clark

We have what are considered to be some of the weaker laws in the nation protecting animals.

Peter Singer

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal. Circuses are even worse places for animals. Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in travelling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road.

We've got six dogs, and we rotate them in and out of the fenced-in vineyards, ... I think a lot of the animals don't come because the dogs are here.

We've marked over 200, and five became nuisance animals.

We're using these animals as ocean sensors to tell us about oceanographic conditions, and we're also learning how they use the ocean--where they go and what they do.

Jennifer Granholm

Using computer technology to shoot at caged animals from a distance is a corruption of our proud hunting traditions, ... This practice is nothing more than a live-action video game, and I am proud to stand with Michigan's outdoor enthusiasts in opposing it.

Usually, there is not too much competition, but there are usually two or three animals that draw a lot of interest.

We recycle bottles and cans, and we have a lot of pets because we love animals. It's important to celebrate Earth Day so we can save everything and conserve.

We don't seize animals. We only document what happened.

We envision humans healing animals and animals healing humans.

We encourage parents to buy their kids stuffed animals. We're really adamant about it.

Gary L. Francione

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

We really recognize that level of commitment. Plus, these animals are really, really special.

Well, we try to give the best care we can to the animals who need it. We're different from most shelters in that we have the volunteer and donor support to take care of bigger (medical) problems most shelters can't.

Chuck D.

We have a lot of events coming up, such as Tennessee Week for the Animals in October. We work closely with the Maryville Animal Shelter, which has been just great.

Most of the cloned animals through all kinds of species are abnormal. A lot of them die prematurely, or have all kinds of defects. Many cloned mice die immediately after birth because of breathing failure.

John Hunter

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year.

The Arkansas-Oklahoma State Fair would do the animals and the public a favor by banning exotic-animal acts. Tearing babies from their mothers for stressful and potentially dangerous public contact isn't wholesome family entertainment.

The animals were the favorite. You know you can't compete with that.

The animals were just tied to here, there, stacked up here, stacked up on garbage there, buried under garbage here. It was pretty bad." ()

The animals we had there got good and fat.