Donald McCaig Quotes

I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

For me, animals are not that much different from human beings.

The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the knowledge that these creatures which think and feel can't speak for themselves. I feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.

I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

Ich glaube sogar, durch Leidensk a« mpfe k o« nnten dieTiere zu Menschen werden. I believe that by suffering even animals could be made human.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no!

Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.

There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.