#animals

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#animals #humanity #death

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest. ↗

— Martin Luther

#dogs #faith

Sounds become more like other sounds that neighbor them. That is why one congressman oinks, another moos, and another bleats. ↗

— Bauvard

#congress #funny #humor #funny

...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.... ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#humor #humor

Everybody is born so that they can learn to live a good life-like loving everybody and being nice, right? Well animals already know how to do that, so they don't have to live so long ↗

— Robin Downing

#love #life

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. ↗

— Mark Twain

#dogs #heaven #inspirational #man #religion

Now may every living thing, young or old, weak or strong, living near or far, known or unknown, living or departed or yet unborn, may every living thing be full of bliss. ↗

— Anonymous

#bliss #humans #joy #life #living

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us. ↗

— Max DePree

#dogs #life

Sometimes i think you were a dolphin in a previous life, ↗

— Ben M. Baglio

#life

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#animal-cruelty #animal-kindness #animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals