Today [2 October] is World Farm Animals Day
Friday [4 October] is the Feast Day of St.Francis of Assisi – patron saint of animals.

We love the following sayings :

1. Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot
2. Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. ~Anatole France
3. Lots of people talk to animals…. Not very many listen, though….That’s the problem. ~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
4. The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb