Animal-Human Interaction Quotes

… mortals suppose that the gods are born (as they themselves are), and that they wear man's clothing and have human voice and body. But if cattle or lions had hands, so as to paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, they would paint their gods and give them bodies in form like their own—horses like horses, cattle like cattle.

If you have time to be with a dog, and the dog is smart, you come to understand the dog, and the dog understands you. They're not hard to train. But they have to be smart, and you have to spend time with them. It's like coaching. I was a better coach when I had smart players.

I really liked the idea of a talking horse in a human world.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.'

When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you generally find this between the dog and his master.

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.

Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "What for?"

So much of the time spent on 'Zootopia' was inventing it. What does it look like? How does it work?

By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.

That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.

All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

Bindi went in with the crocodiles when she was one month old and grew up with the crocodiles.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.

One of the fundamental scientific discoveries of the dog-human relationship is that when a dog looks into his master's eyes, you have a release of oxytocin - which is the trust hormone, the love hormone.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

I converse with my dog through ESP.

Veterinarians are essential allies to the millions of us who experience the human-animal bond.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.