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I do have a place in my heart for animal shelters because the job they have is impossible - so many animals that need to euthanized because don't have homes for them.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a loving cat or dog from an animal shelter instead of buying animals from breeders or pet shops.

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance.

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

I think pets are a good thing, especially if you get them out of a shelter.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.