When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

If people will not eat dogs they will not die but because of their taste dogs do die...

Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.

If ingenious exists in animal cruelty it also exists in animal kindness..

You will not lose anything if you sign the petition, but someone will, if you don't.. (in response to animal cruelty petitions)