I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

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

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. As i say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise, and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark, "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects, but by God he can wrap a cat.

A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.