By taking care of the animals, he's great.

When I got started again, I drove slower and felt smaller. I think it does us all good to get looked at like that now and then by a wild animal.

I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

This is not Bambi. You can't think of these things as cute cartoon characters. They are animals.

We witnessed animals having their leg tendons slashed and eyes stabbed at with knives to disable and disorientate them prior to slaughter.

She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.