Animal/Dog/Wolf Quotations

"A dog has a share in man's intelligence but no share in his falsehood." 
                              -- Sir Walter Scott

"A dog may be the only opportunity a human has to choose a relative." 
                              -- Mordecai Siegal

"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair." 
                              -- Arnold Toynbee

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." 
                              -- Unknown

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." 
                              -- Anonymous 

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." 
                              -- Immanuel Kant

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." 
                              -- Woodrow Wilson

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." 
                              -- James Thurber

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." 
                              -- Will Rogers

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." 
                              -- Robert Louis Stevenson 

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man." 
                              -- St. Francis of Assisi

"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives." 
                              -- Rita Rudner

"One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble." 
                              -- Kate Sanborn, Educated Dogs of Today

"Qui me amat, amet et canem meum." ("Love me, love my dog.") 
                              -- St. Bernard, A.D. 1150, Sermo Primus

"To be followed home by a stray dog is a sign of impending wealth." 
                              -- Chinese Proverb

"All beings tremble before violence.  All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"
                              -- Buddha

"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not.  Why not? Animals don't vote."
                              -- Paul Harvey

"Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns."
                              -- William S. Gilbert

"Deliberate cruelty to our defenseless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty."
                              -- William Ralph Inge

"Wolves are not our brothers; are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life." 
                              -- Henry Beston

"Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves." 
                              -- Barry Lopez

"To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul." 
                              -- Aldo Leopold

"Anyone who has ever heard it when the land was covered with a blanket of snow and elusively lighted by shimmering moonlight, will never forget the strange, trembling wolf cry." 
                              -- Unknown

"The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared." 
                              -- L. David Mech

"The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just non-fightning." 
                              -- Lois Crisler


The Rescuer's Creed
Author unknown

I promise I will take your unwanted animals.
I will heal their wounds, their diseases, their broken bones.
I will give them the medical attention they need and deserve.
I will nurture their starvation and give them a warm place to sleep.
I will spay and neuter them, vaccinate them against the diseases that can harm them.
I will treat them and honor them.
I will buy them toys, blankets, balls, and teach them to play.
I will speak softly to them.
I will try to teach them not to fear, not to cry, and not to hate.
I will whisper sweet, kind, gentle words into their ears, while gently trying to stroke their fear, their pain, and their scars away.
I will face their emotional scars and give them time to overcome them.
I will socialize them, potty train them, teach them to be obedient, show them dignity, and hold their paws, and stroke their ears if they have endured too much and walk them over the Rainbow Bridge, BUT most of all I will teach them LOVE.




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