Tippi Hedren Quotes

I want to get a wolf and an eagle.

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.

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

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.

That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.

I really love animals and enjoy working with them.

I love dogs, horses and generally all animals.

People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.

To preserve the buffalo as a species, the best thing we can do is eat them. Animals that people eat do not become extinct. That's why we have so many more chickens than bald eagles in this country.

Whether exotic wild animals have escaped or the owners have let them go, the problem is still there…. The damage has already been done.

I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.

One day, I hope to have a pot bellied pig and a wombat as pets.

Everyone has a different opinion; every country has a different way of doing things. But I do believe that we need a regulatory body so that everyone who owns or manages wildlife is subject to inspection and rated on how well they look after the animals and how the communities benefit.

People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.

If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.

I'm a cat person, I'm a dog person, I work in wildlife rescue.

We should not put additional stressors on God's creatures through irresponsible trade practices in wild birds.

Our message, without preaching, is how to treat wildlife and to have empathy for all animals.

I learned to have a respect for animals and for the people who deal with them - vets and farmers.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

Wearing shoes, clothes, and other accessories made out of exotic skin is as cold-blooded as it gets.

My older six are animals.