Pets Quote by Jessica Pierce Download Open image ““Pets are not eaten (usually), but they feed our souls.”” — Jessica Pierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pets
“Animals are good for the soul. Sometimes I wonder if I’m rescuing them or if it’s the other way around.” — Melinda Leigh Copy Share Image
“The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.” — Johnathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“When you’re starving, and all the grocery stores are out of meat, that’s when you’ll be glad you’re a pet owner.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If God didn't want us to eat the animals, He wouldn't have made them so tasty.” — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.” — T. Casey Brennan Copy Share Image
“We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth of about eating animals?” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.” — M.Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Fetishes…they’re the pet you feed or the beast that eats you. We’ll feed your beast until it’s tamed.” — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“Yet still, beneath all the marketing and social construction of attitudes and desires and shopping habits, there is a deep yearning for connection. The… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“There is a tendency to oversimplify the issue of spay/neuter and to promote the essential benefits without recognizing that our animals do suffer some… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“A common misconception is that pets have easy lives. They don’t have to do any work to find food and shelter or to protect… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“I know that market value is a repulsive accounting of somebody’s worth, and many of us would be unable to put a monetary value… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“If you balk at the idea that dogs could be bred like pigs, I’m sorry to disabuse you. Dogs and pigs alike are treated… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Emotional attachments to and functions of animals in human families are highly variable — and not always positive. Some family pets are surrogate children,… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Often we jump to the conclusion that a dog or cat who doesn’t like to be petted is cranky or unfriendly, but this isn’t… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Some of this diversity in animal feeling is surely related to enculturation (we in the United States tend to love dogs and be disgusted… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“I recently asked a veterinarian friend how he thought about our relationship to companion animals. “They are slaves—chattel slaves,” he said breezily. I was… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Massive round-ups of strays have been replaced by daily intake and elimination, the large crate full of dead dogs replaced by a steady trickle… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“I’m focusing here on dogs because this is where almost all of the research and exposés lead us. But of course puppies aren’t the… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Animals are not genderless objects. “He” and “she” are vast improvements over “it.” “Who” is more fitting than “that” or “which.” (So, it isn’t… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Plenty of animals had pets, but few were more devoted than the mouse, who owned a baby corn snake—“A rescue snake, she’d be quick… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Learn a lesson from your dog. No matter what life brings you, kick some grass over that shit and move on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet still, beneath all the marketing and social construction of attitudes and desires and shopping habits, there is a deep yearning for connection. The… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.” — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
This is my fish Ariel... she died last dec 27... twas so sad but, life must go on... — Mharwhyn Copy Share Image
That moment of heartbreak when your pet jumps off your bed and leaves the room.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, a dog will be presented as some training method for having a baby. "My girlfriend and I got a dog. We are going… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
My dog thinks I am patting his belly...little does he know I am playing the most epic drum solo of all time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel terrible getting my cat fixed and relegating it to the same sexless existence as me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
