“I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot trai...” — Donald McCaig Quote

“I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.”

“If you don't have work for a border collie or time to train it properly, your bright young border collie will invent his own work, and chances are you won't like it.”

“You have to train a dog to think.”

“I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.”

“It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.”

“The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.”

“In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.”

“When people encroach on forest land and in the periphery of habitats of wild animals, they attack humans.”

“Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.”

“The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.”

“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”

“I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.”