We don't make the animals work. These animals have already had a bad start. Why make them entertain people? Let them play - that's our show. That's our philosophy.

This is not normal, what you're seeing. These are my babies. ... But this is still a stick of dynamite, and the fuse is lit.

They think they're just cute, and they get it, and they put it in their lifestyle, and it's not really the animal's lifestyle. They didn't really research beforehand, and then they have an animal that can bite and be nasty and is overwhelming financially, and before you know it, they can't handle it.

It's all in a day's work. We recognize how important animals are to people.

People shouldn't go to work to die.

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.