«Homeless animals, Adopting animals»

A dog is not a thing. A thing is replaceable. A dog is not. A thing is disposable. A dog is not. A thing doesn’t have a heart. A dog’s heart is bigger than any “thing” you can ever own.

(Paw Prints in the Sand)

Elizabeth Parker

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

(Mr Gilfil’s Love Story)

George Eliot

An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Martin Buber

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

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

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schulz

Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Roger A. Caras

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

(Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog)

John Grogan

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.

(Alex & Me)

Irene M. Pepperberg

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Colette

Whoever declared that love at first sight doesn’t exist has never witnessed the purity of a puppy or looked deep into a puppy’s eyes. If they did, their lives would change considerably.

(Paw Prints in the Sand)

Elizabeth Parker

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

John Bunyan

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Mark Twain

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.

(Winnie-the-Pooh)

A.A. Milne

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 men.

Francis of Assisi

Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.

Karen Davison

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.

Elvis Presley