3 Quotes by Ken Foster

There’s a strange intimacy between a lost animal and the person who finds him. In terms of time, what you’ve shared is tiny and insignificant, but that moment is a vital pivot in the animal’s life, the line between his old life and a better, new one. In some cases that fine line is the one between life and death.

And it made me nervous, because I’m the kind of person who should be kept away from romance, the way certain people should be kept away from guns or sharp knives.

One of PETA’s agenda items is the extinction of problem breeds like the pit bull; the claim is that making them extinct is the only way to protect the animals from abuse. Apparently the problem of abuse is not one that involves the behavior of the abusive human. Following this line of “ethical” thinking, the problem of divorce should be solved by banning marriage, and child abuse is best addressed by euthanizing children.