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It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.