Welcome to the Monday, November 16th edition of the Pootie-Woozle Diaries.
This diary is a politics free zone, meant for relaxing and unwinding for a few minutes, before going back to the serious stuff.
Feel free to add your own photos and comments. Pet care and concern comments are always allowed, of course, but otherwise, please keep it lighthearted and friendly.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mohandas Gandhi
No theme today, just a few mini-themes and lots of assorted pics, LOLs, and quotes that I enjoy and hope you will, too.
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth. Henry Beston
Presidents
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. Harry S. Truman
Adoption
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Alfred A. Montapert
The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into. Bruce Schimmel
Environmental/Animal Rights
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. His Holiness The Dalai Lama
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. Émile Zola
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. Jacques Deval
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. Edward O. Wilson
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. Alice Walker
Miscellaneous
Alpaca
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog. Ernest Thompson Seton
Dogs are miracles with paws. Attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. Washington Irving
Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. Helen Powers
There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. Dan Greenberg
Cats often devise their own sets of rules that they think we should live by, and they may be quick to chastise us if we fail to adhere to these rules! Margaret Reister, D.V.M.
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh
♪ ♫ Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds? ♪♫
Pablo Picasso
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Henry David Thoreau
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. Joseph Wood Krutch
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. Nora Ephron
Just Because
Special Favorites that I have not used in a while:
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. Abraham Lincoln
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Credits and Thanks
Many thanks to icanhascheezburger.com, source of the LOL pics.
Thanks, also, to many resources for the quotes used.
♥ ♥Special thanks to all the Pootie-Woozle people for all they do to make this world a better place. ♥ ♥
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