Animal Ownership Quotes

Cats are ideal for politicians. I had two when I arrived at Westminster, Sooty and Sweep, who had come with a flat I had bought six years earlier in Fulham from someone who was about to go abroad. There was a better offer ahead of me but she took mine because I would take the cats.

A … fine is imposed upon any master convicted, of permitting his slave to keep livestock of any description

They've made it a felon to drive from Florida to Louisiana with any fighting birds, so I've had to get rid of most of my chickens. I only got about a hundred left now, which I just keep for colour and breeding. I love those birds as much as anything.

There is nothing wrong with professional pet owners and private breeders of exotic animals. And I would be the first to fight to take away an animal from an irresponsible owner.

The Great Spirit has stocked your land with cows, ours with Buffalo. Yours with hogs, ours with Bear. Yours with sheep, ours with deer. He has given you the advantage that your animals are tame while ours are wild and demand not only a large space for range but art to hunt and kill them. Nevertheless, they are as much our property as other animals are yours and ought not to be taken from us without our consent or for something of equal value.

Just because you have an exotic animal as a pet does not make you a danger or irresponsible.

A Polish man bought a zebra for a pet. What does he call the zebra? Spot!

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

A pig is a pig no matter whose pigpen it's in.

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

Having a horse is a huge responsibility, so people should be very careful before they consider getting one.

Dogs own space and cats own time.

I'm not opposed to the protection of animals. But the best way to do that is to make sure some human being owns them.

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into.

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

I clean out the cat tray like everyone else.

If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.