- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
- Cat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.
- Meat
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of cats is a story of meat.
- Accept
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dogs are a window on the natural world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So for this reason, it's very important that we make sure always to save enough wild or open land so that they can live in their normal manner.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.
- Any
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog.
- Creatures
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- Nov 07, 2020
No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Veterinarians are essential allies to the millions of us who experience the human-animal bond.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020