James Herriot Animal Quotations

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat....

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

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.

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

I hope to make people realise how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must be that we will be kind and take care of their needs.