There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.