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ANIMAL RIGHTS --- ANIMALS

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ANIMAL RIGHTS

see "ANIMALS" (below) for related links


The question is not,
Can they reason? nor,
Can they talk? but,
Can they suffer?
--Jeremy Bentham (1748—1832)
English philosopher.
_Principles of Morals and Legislation_ [1789]

I believe that mink are raised for being turned into
fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little
animals would never have been born. So is it better
not to have been born or to have lived for a year or
two to have been turned into a fur coat? I don't know.
--attributed to Barbi Benton (b. 1950)
Playboy bunny and singer.

A robin red breast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.
--William Blake (1757—1827)
English poet.
"Auguries of Innocence" [c.1803]

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals,
let them make their experiments on journalists and
politicians.
--attributed to Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906)
Norwegian playwright.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have
treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that
beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they
would depict the Devil in human form.
--William Ralph Inge (1860—1954)
English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911—1934].
_Outspoken Essays: Second Series_ [1922] "The Idea of Progress"

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test
(which lies deeply buried from view) consists
of its attitudes towards those who are at its
mercy: animals.
--Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
Czech writer.
_The Unbearable Lightness of Being_ [1984]

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it
gave pain to the bear, but because it gave
pleasure to the spectators.
--Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800—1859)
English politician and historian.
_History of England_, v, I, ch. 2 [1849]

Death may be inevitable but cruelty is not. If we must
eat meat, then we must ensure that the animals we
kill for our food live the best possible lives before
they die.
--Desmond Morris (b. 1928)
English anthropologist and author.
_The Animal Contract_ [1990]

[Henry Bergh] was a notable defender of animals, and was
the founder, in 1866, of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. This was the first humane society in
the United States, antedating — a strange commentary
— the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
founded by another Fifth Avenue resident, Elbridge T.
Gerry, in 1874. Bergh was originally outraged by the
treatment of horses on New York's streets, especially
the overworked beasts that pulled the omnibuses and
stages.
--Jerry E. Patterson
_Fifth Avenue: The Best Address_ [1998]

The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more
agonizing .. for once started upon that journey, the hog
never came back. One by one the men hooked up the
hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with
squeals and lifeblood ebbing away .. until at last each
vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still
alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very
trustingly. They were so very human in their protests.
They had done nothing to deserve it.
--Upton Sinclair (1878—1968)
American novelist.
_The Jungle_ [1906]

Humanity is much more shown in our conduct towards animals,
where we are irresponsible, except to heaven, than towards our
fellow-creatures, where we are restrained by the laws, by public
opinion, and by fear of retaliation.
--Horace Smith (1779—1849)
English poet and novelist.
_The Tin Trumpet_ [1836]

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
--John Webster (c.1580—c.1625)
English dramatist.
_The White Devil_, 5.4 [1612]

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox
— the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_A Woman of No Importance_, act I [1893]

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People are more violently opposed to fur than
leather because it's safer to harass rich women
than motorcycle gangs.
--anon.

This message brought to you by PETA, People Eating Tasty Animals.

Things have come to a hell of a pass
When a man can't wallop his own jackass.
--anon. c. 1900


TOPICAL

Now that the last dog has crossed the finish line, Iditarod organizers are
rushing to patch up "The Last Great Race's" tattered reputation. Three
dogs died, and a veteran musher, Ramy Brooks, was disqualified from
this year's race. Witnesses caught Brooks beating his dogs, one of whom
later died.

[...]

In the Iditarod, dogs race approximately 1,150 miles, roughly the distance
from New York City to St. Petersburg, Fla., over a grueling terrain in 8
to 16 days.

They often run more than 100 miles a day — the equivalent of four marathons
back-to-back with few (and brief) intervals of rest. They are subjected to biting
winds, blinding snowstorms, sub-zero temperatures and falls through
treacherous ice into frigid water.

Their feet become bruised, bloodied, cut by ice and just plain worn out because
of the vast distances they cover. Many dogs pull muscles, tendons and ligaments,
rupture discs, incur stress fractures and become sick with bloody diarrhea,
dehydration, intestinal viruses or bleeding stomach ulcers.

Dogs have been strangled by tow lines, trampled by moose and hit by
snowmobiles and sleds. One dog in this year's race became lost in a snowstorm
and was missing for 11 days.

At least 133 dogs have died in the Iditarod since records started being kept —
and that doesn't include dogs who die in training or after the race ends. One
dog in this year's race died of "acute pneumonia" and another from internal
bleeding from a ruptured ulcer, two common causes of death for Iditarod
dogs.

[...]

The cause of death for the dog belonging to Ramy Brooks has yet to be
determined, but it is likely that her death was a direct result af being forced
to run too far too fast. Brooks reportedly beat his team after they lay down
on an ice field and refused to go any further.

Iditarod apologists describe the beatings as "spankings," but this euphemism
implies that the dogs had done something to deserve being whacked with a
stick (and kicked and punched, as some witnesses allege), when in all
likelihood they were simply too exhausted to go any further. [...]

--Jennifer O'Connor
"Dogs Deaths Stain Reputation of Dog Race"
Mcclatchy-Tribune News Service [30 March 2007]

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abattoir AB-uh-twahr, noun:
A slaughterhouse.



ANIMALS

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ANIMALS

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see:

ANIMAL RIGHTS (above)

BEARS

BIRDS

CATS, CATS & DOGS

COWS

DOGS

ELEPHANTS

FISH

HIPPOS

HORSE RACING, HORSES

HUNTING

NATURE

PENGUINS, P.E.T.A.

PIGS

RABBITS

RATS

SHEEP

TURKEY, TURTLES

WHALES

ZOOS

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Two buffaloes were grazing contentedly on the open prairie when a
cowboy rode up. Looking the animals over, he shook his head and
said, "You two are the ugliest buffaloes I ever saw. Look at you —
your fur is tangled, you have humps on your backs and you slobber
all over the place." As the cowboy rode off, the first buffalo
remarked to the second, "I think I just heard a discouraging word."

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Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is
perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible
exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You"
in spats.
--Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (b. 1935)
American actor, screenwriter, and director.
"On Seeing a Tree in Summer" (essay)

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Donald Mottram, a farmer in Dyfed, Wales, lay unconscious for 90
minutes in a field after he had been gored and trampled by an angry
bull. But his herd of cows — marshalled by his favorite cow, a
14-year-old called Daisy came to the rescue. They encircled him to
keep the bull away, and he was eventually able to crawl the 200
yards to a gate, while the cows shielded him. 'They knew of the
danger and decided to protect me,' he explained.
--Robert Backhouse [1997]

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Hilaire Belloc (1870—1953):

These are from _The Bad Child's Book of Beasts_
and _More Beasts For Worse Children_ by Hillaire
Belloc

The Yak

As a friend to the children, commend me the Yak.
You will find it exactly the thing:
It will carry and fetch, you can ride on its back,
Or lead it about with a string.
The Tartar who dwells on the plains of Thibet
(A desolate region of snow)
Has for centuries made it a nursery pet,
And surely the Tartar should know!
Then tell your papa where the Yak can be got,
And if he is awfully rich
He will buy you the creature — or else he will not.
(I cannot be positive which.)

The Polar Bear

The Polar Bear is unaware
Of cold that cuts me through:
For why? He has a coat of hair.
I wish I had one too!

The Lion

The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the waste,
He has a big head and very small waist;
But his shoulders are stark, and his jaws
they are grim,
And a good little child will not play with him.

The Hippopotamus

I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten 'em.

The Welsh Mutton

The Cambrian Welsh or Mountain Sheep
Is of the Ovine race,
His conversation is not deep,
But then, observe his face!

The Scorpion

The Scorpion is as black as soot,
He dearly loves to bite;
He is a most unpleasant brute
To find in bed, at night.

The Vulture

The Vulture eats between his meals,
And that's the reason why
He very, very rarely feels
As well as you and I.
His eye is dull, his head is bald,
His neck is growing thinner.
Oh! what a lesson for us all
To only eat at dinner!

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To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow.
Cows love you . . . They will listen to your
problems and never ask a thing in return.
They will be your friends for ever. And
when you get tired of them, you can kill
and eat them. Perfect.
--Bill Bryson (b. 1951)
American writer of humorous travel books.
_Neither Here Nor There_ [1991]

'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
'To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax —
Of cabbages — and kings —
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings.'
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Thorough the Looking-Glass_, ch. 4 [1872]

Dogs look up to us. cats look down
on us, but pigs treat us as equals.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-45, 1951-55].
Quoted in "Time" (mag.) [1990].

Animals are such agreeable friends — they
ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Scenes of Clerical Life_, ch. 7 [1857]
(Published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine)

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.
--attributed to Francis, St, of Assisi (1181—1226)
Italian monk.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it
wastes your time and annoys the pig.
--Robert Heinlein (1907—1988)
American science-fiction writer.
_Time Enough for Love_ [1973] "Prelude II"

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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 [James Alfred Wight] (1916—1995)
British veterinarian and author.
_All Creatures Great and Small_ [1972]


I hope to make people realize how totally
helpless animals are, how dependent on us,
trusting as a child must be that we will be
kind and take care of their needs ... [They]
are an obligation put on us, a responsibility
we have no right to neglect, or violate by
cruelty.
--attributed to James Herriot [James Alfred Wight]
(1916—1995) British veterinarian and author.

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Every woman should have four pets in her life.... a mink in her closet,
a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for
everything.
--attributed to Paris Hilton (b. 1981)
American socialite.

There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
--William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840—1901)
English poet and critic.
"There Was a Young Lady of Niger"

..there is nevertheless a certain respect, a general
duty to humanity, not only to beasts that have life
and sense, but even to trees and plants. We owe
justice to men, and graciousness and benignity to
other creatures... there is a certain commerce
and mutual obligation betwixt them and us.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) {94 chapters written 1571—1580 & published 1580;
the last 13 chapters were written 1585—1587 & published 1588 }.

If you don't need them, don't feed them.
That goes for cats, rats, mother-in-laws
and so forth.
--James Murphy, rodent control officer,
Washington, D.C., in the "New York Times," [10 August 1985].

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The ostrich roams the great Sahara.
Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra.
It has such long and lofty legs,
I'm glad it sits to lay its eggs.
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
"The Ostrich"


God, in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
"The Fly" [1942]

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News item [10 August 2006]

Police in Toledo, Ohio, have rescued dozens of
Australian wombats from a man who was trying
unsuccessfully to train them to fight. "The (expletive)
who sold them to me said they were vicious killers . . .
I paid 300 bucks for a pair of eucalyptus-leaf eating
retards who just stare at each other with a dull glare,"
the man said.

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Four legs good, two legs bad.
--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
Slogan in _Animal Farm_, ch. 3 [1945].

I never go to a menagerie because I cannot endure the sight
of the misery of the captive animals. The exhibiting of
trained animals I abhor. What an amount of suffering and
cruel punishment the poor creatures have to endure in order
to give a few moments' pleasure to men devoid of all thought
and feeling for them!
--Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965)
Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor.
_Memories of Childhood and Youth_ [1949]

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
--Elizabeth Taylor (1932—2011)
American motion-picture actress.
"The Times" [18 February 1981], as quoted
in Judy Allen _Picking on Men_ [1985].

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Or if some time when roaming round
A noble wild beast greets you,
With black stripes on a yellow ground,
Just notice if he eats you.
This simple rule may help you learn
The Bengal Tiger to discern.

--Carolyn Wells (1862—1942)
American writer.
"How to Tell Wild Animals," _Baubles_ [1917]

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I am the voice of the voiceless
Through me the dumb shall speak,
Till the deaf world's ear
Shall be made to hear
The woes of the wordless weak.

The same force formed the sparrow
That fashioned man, the king,
The God of the Whole
Gave a spark of a soul
To furred and feathered things.

And I am my brother's keeper,
And I will fight his fight,
And speak the word
For beast and bird,
Till the world shall set things right.

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850—1919)
American author and poet.
First stanza quoted in _American Theosophist_ [June 1908].

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[Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland):]
Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh my!
--"The Wizard Of Oz" [1939]
Screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf.

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There was a young thing from Madras
Who had a most beautiful ass.
It wasn't pink
As you might think
But it had long ears and ate grass.
--anon.

An impetuous maiden named Marion,
An antidisestablishmentarian,
Took a rabbit, a bear
And a pig to the fair,
And posed as a veterinarian.
--anon.

Some people count sheep, using numbers
To hasten and lengthen their slumbers,
But my nostrum entails
Just curvaceous females,
For I prefer figures to numbers.
--anon.

A lion in one of the zoos,
Was recently top of the news,
While in a big rage,
He broke in the next cage,
And that is the end of the gnus.
--anon.

Once I went to the zoo,
There to view the old gnu.
But the old gnu was dead,
And the new gnu, they said,
Was too new a new gnu to be viewed.
--anon.

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A man bought a donkey from a priest. The priest told the man that
this donkey had been trained in a very unique way.

The only way to make the donkey go, is to say, "Hallelujah!"

The only way to make the donkey stop, is to say, "Amen!"

The man was pleased with his purchase and immediately got on the
animal to try out the priest's instructions.

Hallelujah!" shouted the man. The donkey began to trot. "Amen!"
shouted the man. The donkey stopped immediately.

"This is great!" said the man. With a Hallelujah" he rode off, very
proud of his new purchase.

The man traveled for a long time through the mountains. As he headed
towards a cliff, he tried to remember the word to make the donkey
stop.

"Stop!," said the man. "Halt!" he cried. The donkey just kept going.
"Oh, no..." "Bible...Church!...Please! Stop!!," shouted the man. The
donkey just began to trot faster. He was getting closer and closer
to the edge of the cliff.

Finally, in desperation, the man said a prayer ..."Please, dear
Lord. Please make this donkey stop before I go off the end of this
mountain, In Jesus' name, AMEN."

The donkey came to an abrupt stop just one step from the edge of the
cliff.

"HALLELUJAH!" shouted the man.

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Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the
ice in Antarctica - where do they go?

It is a well known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird
which lives an extremely ordered and complex life.

The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life,
as well as maintaining a form of compassionate contact with its
offspring throughout its life.

If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of
the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the
ice, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep
enough for the dead bird to be rolled into and buried.

The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave
and sing: "Freeze a jolly good fellow."

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lycanthropy (noun) [LI-'kζn-thrκ-pi]
The supposed power of certain human beings to convert
themselves into wolves; the belief in such power; the
delusion that one has become a wolf.

menagerie [muh-NAJ-uh-ree], noun:
1. A collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.
2. An enclosure where wild or unusual animals are kept or exhibited.
3. A diverse or varied group.

tether [TETH`ER]
To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or
chain, as for feeding within certain limits.


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