Animal Handling Quotes

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

As a keeper, you can't be afraid.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

I wouldn't hurt a flea. I'd finger a spider though.

I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

I will put rings in the noses of these hogs.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one.

I learned to have a respect for animals and for the people who deal with them - vets and farmers.

I've never been in a situation where I had to run for my life, but I've been bitten by a lot of poisonous snakes where it was fairly painful. Pythons of size have a lot of teeth in that mouth, it's a painful bite and those wounds get infected fairly easily. I've got snake wounds from these animals that have lasted quite a while where it'll ache for several days. Having said that, I've been lucky; it's not like I'm looking for trouble with these animals either. It's not an envelope I'm willing to push.

I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.

The last time I did a movie that needed a horse, I said: 'If it moves, I'm out of here.' The worst thing is, they know when you're afraid and act up accordingly. I've had them run off on me. Horses I do not like.

I'm a horseback rider. I know how to use a whip.

Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.

It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

Betty White met with President Obama at the White House. President Obama invited Betty personally because she's great with animals. And the president's still having a tough time house-training Joe Biden.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?” “Yeah,” I said. “I was there.

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.

I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.