A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do no — Walt Whitman

If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns. — Dan Rather

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love. — Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife — J.B. Morton

The bee is domesticated but not tamed. — William Longgood

A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can fi — Will Cuppy

$People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re packed body to body, and can’t escape their waste — Jonathan Safran Foer$

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil nec — Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him. — Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan. — Timmothy Radman

I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudhole — E.L. Doctorow, Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories

If a person fights, that's their own choice," Angel says. "But getting two roosters to fight or two dogs like pit bulls — Denise Flaim, Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles

A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.

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