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Veterinary surgeon

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

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Book:All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet
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“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 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 ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.”

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Author:James Herriot
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“Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.”

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Book:Let Sleeping Vets Lie
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