Ann Aguirre 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.

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

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.

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

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

My dog and two cats are such a vital part of my life. To say that I am their owner doesn't reflect at all the profound bond and responsibility that I have towards them.

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

I love animals, especially dogs, as I can have them as pets too.

Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.

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

I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.

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

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea - and please excuse me - that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I've done that - very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing!

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

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

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

People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate.

You handle animals. You deal with people.

What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.