Gary L. Francione Quotes

The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

But if there were two dogs left in the universe and it were up to us as to whether they were allowed to breed so that we could continue to live with dogs, and even if we could guarantee that all dogs would have homes as loving as the one that we provide, we would not hesitate for a second to bring the whole institution of 'pet' ownership to an end.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

I just wish that more people would be welcoming to dogs and cats so they didn't have so many that got killed and had to be thrown in a landfill.

Millions of cats are in shelters across the country waiting for a loving parent or family to bring them home.

There are a lot of dogs that need homes, and it's not always easy to find the right fit.

I have two pets - a dog and a cat.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air.

Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.

Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to the prevailing attitude that dogs and cats and wild animals need protection, but other animals do not. Thus people came to think of "animal welfare" as something for kindly ladies who are dotty about cats, and not as a cause founded on basic principles of justice and morality.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill

We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.

Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.