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Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.