“I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.” WorldRunningKidsAnimalWeekDadQuietPropertyMy DadHillsMumBest Of Both WorldsAdelaide Author:Teresa Palmer
“I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch Pet Cemetery as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldnt sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.” KidsRememberSleepAnimalWatchesSeeingWeekSouthRaisedPetSouthernHouseholdAgain And AgainStrictCarolinaCemeterySouth CarolinaLexington Author:Jessica Stroup
“Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.” KnowsTryingStillsPlayAnimalWeekObviousFlightThrownCategoriesKillersShockingAirlineWhalesSouthwest AirlinesKiller Whales Author:Bill Maher
“I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.” MenWantPainUsedSufferingAnimalPoorWeekSightHorseSticksEndureDrivenOne ManAnother ManSlaughterhousesLimping Author:Albert Schweitzer
“The only award I've been nominated for is a Scottish BAFTA. A Scottish BAFTA, it's like hearing that the animals have their own Olympics. You hear all this stuff about TV being faked. Of course it's faked. It's all faked. That documentary a couple of weeks ago about tribal warfare among monkeys, that was all filmed in a Yates wine lodge in Dundee. Comic Relief is faked. Everybody in Africa is fine.” HumorFunnyCoursesStuffAnimalWeekTvsFineCoupleWineHearingComicReliefAwardsWarfareOlympicsMonkeysDocumentariesScottishLodgesComic ReliefDundee Author:Frankie Boyle
“Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.” MenFunnyThreeAnimalWeekIntelligentTrainEdgesPoolThree TimesDolphinsCaptivity Author:Hal Roach
“I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.” FirstsMadeSimpleAnimalWeekCoupleArgumentInstinctResponseNineRadicalVegetarianGreat ChangeBabysitter Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-” ActionChoicesGivenAnimalWeekResearchDirectKillingBurningTortureApathyMurdererLiberatingLaboratoryDays Of The WeekMinkBurning Down Author:Gary Yourofsky