As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog. -Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Sympathy
With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them. -Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Respect
People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals. -Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Pet
