Animal Death Quotes

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.

What a lot of the public doesn't know, and I'm sure my fans aren't aware of, orcas have died living at Sea World, and that has not been from old age.

I've always told Bindi, 'If anything ever happened to me, I will always watch over you from Heaven.' But she always understood because, living at a zoo, animals die; she's seen death. She knows what death is.

...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single human life or benefit humans in any way at all; but the same can be said of millions of their experiments performed each year in the United States alone.

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words.

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!