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" You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species. "

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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" No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly. "

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" You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel. "

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" In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs. "

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" Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it. "

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" We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So for this reason, it's very important that we make sure always to save enough wild or open land so that they can live in their normal manner. "

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" Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together. "

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" I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups. "

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" Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment. "

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

" People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog. "

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" The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa. "

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" I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young. "

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" Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey. "

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" I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling. "

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" With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them. "

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" People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals. "

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" From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships. "

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" Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace. "

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" Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone. "

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