What your doggy/kitty needs from you.....


1.) My life is likely to last 10 to 15 years or more. Any separation from you will be painful.

2.) Give me time to understand what you want from me. Do not break my spirit with your temper, though I will always forgive you. Your patience will teach me more effectively.

3.) Please have me spayed or neutered.

4.) Treat me kindly, my beloved friend, for no heart in all the world is more grateful for your kindness than mine. Don't be angry with me for long, and don't lock me up as punishment. After all, you have your job, your friends, your entertainment, I only have you.

5.) Speak to me often. Even if I don't understand your words, I understand your voice when it's speaking to me. Your voice is the sweetest sound I ever hear, as you must know by my enthusiasm whenever I hear your footsteps.

6.) Take me in when it's cold and wet. I'm a domestic animal and am no longer accustomed to the bitter elements. I ask for little more than your gentle hands petting me. Keep my bowl filled with water.

7.) Feed me good food so that I may stay well to romp and play. By your side, I stand ready, willing and able to share my life with you, for that is what I live for. I'll never forget how well you've treated me.

8.) Don't hit me. Remember, I have teeth that could easily crush the bones in your hand, but I choose not to bite.

9.) Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I'm not getting the right food, I've been out in the sun too long, my ear may hurt, or my heart may be getting weak.

10.) Take care of me when I get old. For you will grow old, too. When I am old, or when I no longer enjoy good health, please do not make heroic efforts to keep me going. I am not having fun. Just see to it that my trusting life is taken gently. And be with me on that difficult journey when it's time to say goodbye. Never say, "I just can't bear to watch it." Everything is easier for me when you are there. I will leave this earth knowing with my last breath that my fate was always safest in your hands.


I Love You


*** I want to thank the Paulding County Humane Society of Georgia (USA) for having such a touching and truthful message in their website *** [link]
All that information was obtained from their site.



Quotes about Our Friends...


"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." ~ George Elliot


"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb


True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation." - Joseph Addison


"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble." ~ Buddha


"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~ Mahatma Gandhi


"Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he's the one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." ~ Mark Twain


"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life." ~ Albert Einstein


"If a man aspires toward a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." ~ Count Leo Tolstoy


"True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation." ~ Joseph Addison, English Poet


"Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest..." ~ Lloyd Biggle Jr.


"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant


"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." ~ James Herriot


"My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet." ~ Edith Wharton


"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us" ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


"A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself." ~ Josh Billings


"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France


"I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race." ~ Ali McGraw



Update: New Quotes - Oct 29, 2008



"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men..." ~ St. Francis of Assisi


"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that's the essence of inhumanity." ~ George Bernard Shaw


"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." ~ Pythagoras


"Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other." ~ Dr. Louis J. Camuti, first US veterinarian to devote his practice to felines only


"If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant


"We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature." ~ Rachel Carson


"The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain..." ~ Thomas Chalmers


"My doctrine is this: that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and we do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." ~ Anna Sewell


"Providing food and shelter is not proving love for your pet. Those too, but proper care and protection from harm make the truest sense of responsible pet ownership." ~ John D. Carraway, DVM


"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer






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