"Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core."
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
"Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn."
"Swimming the ocean a giant brain watches us."
"We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immed..."
"Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to know would put their conscience in a terrible bind. Wilful ignorance of this kind is no better than..."
"We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us."
"(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even care what drives ..."
"Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horr..."
"We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but does not show it. What a dog feels, a dog shows, and,..."
"Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the ve..."