Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain,
just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. - His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Each cat I have reminds me of unconditional love. If I'm with my cats I'm also with God" Wynonna
"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." - St. Francis of Assisi
Debrashi stands with her two cats in front of a relief camp in Portmot, 15 miles south of Port Blair, the main city of India's remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, January 2, 2005. Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a 'sixth sense' for disasters, experts said Thursday. (Jayanta Shaw/Reuters)
Feline survivor : A cat who survived the tidel wave, walks among the debris in search of food on the worst hit Thai island of Phi Phi. (AFP/Saeed Khan)
An Indonesian family, refugees from Aceh island, wait for transportation near a stray cat in Banda Aceh December 31, 2004 after the city and most of the coast were devastated by massive tidal waves. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
Sangeeta, a mother of three boys, looks down on her eldest son, Dinakaran, seated, and the dog that saved his life, Selvakumar Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005. Sangeeta could only carry two of her boys and had to leave Dinakaran to fend for himself when a tsunami crashed into their village on Dec. 26, 2004. Selvakumar pulled Dinakaran out of the family hut and nipped and nudged him up a hill to safety. (AP Photo/Chris Tomlinson )
A man carries his child and dog across a river as they flee an area devastated by the quake-triggered tidal waves on the Indonesian island of Nias, off the coast of northern Sumatra, December 30, 2004. Asia's tsunami death toll soared above 125,000 on Friday as millions struggled to find food and clean water and the world mobilised for what is shaping up to be the biggest relief effort in history. Photo taken December 30. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Stray dogs rest amidst the debris in the village of Nawal Adi, Sri Lanka. A Canadian disaster relief team headed for Sri Lanka on a mission to pump safe drinking water and provide emergency care for victims of the tsunami disaster(AFP/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)
An Indian tsunami survivor holds a dog in a village in the outskirts of Cuddalore, south of Madras, December 31, 2004. Aircraft, naval vessels and trucks struggled on Friday to deliver aid around stricken southern Asia as the death toll passed more than 124,000 from a tsunami which darkened the world's New Year. REUTERS/Arko Datta
A cat walks past a man searching for his belongings at a tsunami-devastated house in the Indonesian provincial capital of Banda Aceh, January 4, 2005. An army of aid workers raced on Tuesday to supply food and water to millions of tsunami victims and the United Nations warned a death toll of 150,000 would climb as more bodies are found and disease stalks survivors. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
"It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal."
~ Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) British author, creator of Winnie the Pooh
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
~ Gandhi (1869-1948)
"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous;
it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men."
~ Emile Zola (1840-1902) French novelist
"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 (1918-)
"This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem."
- Walt Whitman
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from loneliness of spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts happens to man. All things are connected. - Chief Seattle
"I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground."
(Reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.)
- Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States
