American - Author | September 13, 1931 -
Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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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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Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.
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We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.
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The story of cats is a story of meat.
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People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
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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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You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.
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Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.
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Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
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Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.
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