Jim Fowler Quotes

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.

Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.

No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.

But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

We also have 2 horses, but they're not allowed in the house.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing.

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.

You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.

I will put rings in the noses of these hogs.