“[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.” GivingBelieveMayDoeMadeHardHard WorkDuesDumbFootnotesBeavers Author:Will Cuppy
“Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.” ThinkingLooksChildrenDoeStatesAgeUsedAsksLeftFishesHookEighteenIndiana Author:Will Cuppy
“If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.” IfsDoeReasonAnimalCatInstinctInspirational CatKitty CatAnimal InstinctAnimal Intelligence Author:Will Cuppy