#pets

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#afternoon #answer #because #cat #comes

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US. ↗

— Jim Henson

#detroit #institute #key #kind #largest

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now. ↗

— Tom Felton

#big #carp #fish #got #i

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#fall #instructions #just #kremlin #parliament

My father loved people, children and pets. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#children #father #loved #people #pets

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#humans #love #more #most #pets

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#forbidden #kill #large #large numbers #numbers

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it. ↗

— Paul Winchell

#puppets #real #see #seeing #understand

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. ↗

— Frances Wright

#expand #like #little #over #owners

It's just the way things are. Take a moment to consider this statement. Really think about it. We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reason other than because it's the way things are. When our attitudes and behaviors towards animals are so inconsistent, and this inconsistency is so unexamined, we can safely say we have been fed absurdities. It is absurd that we eat pigs and love dogs and don't even know why. Many of us spend long minutes in the aisle of the drugstore mulling over what toothpaste to buy. Yet most of don't spend any time at all thinking about what species of animal we eat and why. Our choices as consumers drive an industry that kills ten billion animals per year in the United States alone. If we choose to support this industry and the best reason we can come up with is because it's the way things are, clearly something is amiss. What could cause an entire society of people to check their thinking caps at the door--and to not even realize they're doing so? Though this question is quite complex, the answer is quite simple: carnism. ↗

— Melanie Joy

#carnism #cats #cows #dogs #food