Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
You know that I love you. " And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.
The history of English is full of that, lots of things done with good intentions that 200 years down the road have resulted in a giant mess, where someone's pet peeves - like John Dryden and his hatred of terminal prepositions - could become real standards.
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets.
I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies. . . that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.
That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.
It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.
Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?
The zoo cannot but disappoint.
I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.