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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Whenever you have an animal and bring another one into the house, it's a very traumatic event. It's a story as old as bringing home a second child from the hospital, when the first child kind of goes, 'Hey, aren't I enough?'

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity.

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.