The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin” — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“A lion is not a lion if it is only free to eat, to sleep and to copulate. It deserves to be free to… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“What still frightens me is that society is fickle. There was a time when nobody believed in the reality of abuse, and now it… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“Voltaire responded that, on the contrary, vivisection showed that the dog has the same organes de sentiment that a human has. "Answer me, you… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“Surely we can train ourselves to an empathic imaginative sympathy for another species. Taught what to look for in facial features, gestures, postures, behavior,… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
