Two cats per square meter. Why is this happening? Why do some people prefer animals to people?

Every owner wants his pet to be healthy and happy, so it must be protected. If you don't believe in the evil eye, then maybe it's just worth playing it safe. Especially when the animal is still growing and developing.
If your pet gets sick, feels some kind of anxiety or refuses to eat, make an herbal mixture: three parts of thistle, one of juniper and one of wormwood. Pour these herbs hot water and read a plot on it:

"What I think, it will come true, what I say,
it happens that I wash it, it will be cleansed."
When the water has cooled, wash your pet with it, saying:
"I conjure with black earth,
I command the clear sun
full moon I say:
get off the living place all the evil eye and damage,
all influxes and tortures on the dark forests,
on swampy swamps, on rotten decks,
where people don't walk, cattle don't roam,
the beast does not prowl, the bird does not fly.
Like the sun and moon there is no interference,
so there is no and will not be an obstacle to my conspiracy,
So it was, so it will be."

***
If your pet is sick or shows unreasonable anxiety, pour salt into the bowl and say a conspiracy over it:
"How the supermundane power over the underground will be established,
so all evil spirits from a living place will be destroyed.
Walk around the animal three times in the direction of the sun: so that you always face it. While doing this, sprinkle it with salt and say:
"I destroy black with white,
I banish the damage to whites, I add strength to whites.
Bad deed, recoil, evil thought dissolve,
close the evil eye, move away from the living place.
My word is affirmation and strengthening,
with them I affirm, with them I strengthen, with them I close.
Such magic is effective on the waning moon.

***
If your cat, dog, or other pet is sick, pass the knife over its back, moving it from left to right, point first. Then bring the knife under his belly with the hilt forward and over his back again. Make three such full circles with a knife, pronouncing a plot:
"I cut off all the damage, all the evil eye.
Get away from this beast, all thinness,
all light, do not hide in the wool,
do not take root in the belly, go beyond the three seas,
don't go back."
Then go to a deserted place and stick a knife into the ground there up to its very hilt.

***
On Tuesday or Saturday, talk about the food that you feed your pets: “Black spoilage, but fierce, you don’t nest in my courtyard, don’t hang out with my cattle! From my yard, but step aside from my threshold! From now on, no one will be harmed by you. May it be so! Amen! Amen! Amen!"

***
- Take a glass sour milk and say "Our Father" three times on it. And then one time “Let God rise again!”. Overshadow three times with the sign of the cross: “Corruption to the spoiler, and trouble - to the demon. You must not be here, my cattle must not be strangled, not rolled! Go to the one who sent it, but don't harm my cattle! May it be so! Amen! Amen! Amen!"
Pour this conspiracy drink into the food of your animals.

***
- Observe during the week strict post both in food and in words and actions. The ceremony should be done only in the evening. Place a wax candle near the icon of Jesus Christ. Baptize yourself three times with the words: “Lord, bless!” Then read Psalm 90. Take a clean tablespoon. Put in three peas of incense. Melt over the candle, which stands at the icon. When the incense melts and begins to smoke, take a candle and, holding a spoon with incense over it, go around all the outbuildings so that they are fumigated. Then, holding the St. Don't itch in my backyard! May it be so! Amen! Amen! Amen!"

Elena Belkina

We are surrounded by animals everywhere. Fluffy puppies are looking at us from the Instagram feed, tits are chirping outside the window and March cats are screaming, and a scary spider is hanging in the corner of the room. Many people love animals, but everyone loves differently. Someone loves everyone, but from afar, someone is crazy about huge nods, slippery snails and poisonous frogs

Some people like only cats, while others don't like them at all. But, oddly enough, there are people who do not like animals at all. Maybe they were scared in childhood with tops (“a gray top will come”), maybe they were attacked by a cat, they have allergies or they don’t want to let anyone into their hearts? And there are those who think that they love animals and help them, but in the end they only do well for themselves. Such people feed animals in the zoo, give cabbages to zebras and throw bagels to seals. Animals suffer, but these "lovers" of animals fed a real llama from their hands!
These same people sprinkle crumbs and seeds for birds when it is warm and full of natural food outside. In Thailand, there was such a case: they forbade boats to sail to the island, and the monkeys living on it began to starve, get sick and die. This happened due to the fact that tourists sailing on boats fed the monkeys. The monkeys got used to the fact that the food itself jumps into their hands, and stopped catching crabs and collecting fruits.
We must not forget that animals also have feelings, and they too can love or not love people. Fish and hamsters do not care who feeds and cares for them, but dogs and cats do not. It is said that dogs distinguish people from good intentions from people with bad ones. One dog always barked loudly at all passers-by and guarded her house, but when her mistress fell ill and doctors came to her, the dog did not touch them and let them into the house.
In addition, dogs have Bad mood or they just don't want to communicate. And dogs always talk about it. If the dog turns away from you, tries not to look at you and stands sideways, she says: “I don’t want to offend you, and don’t touch me.” When the dog's tail is tucked in and its ears are lowered, it tries to run away from you, then the animal is afraid, it is better not to touch it. main reason dog attacks on people - the unwillingness of the people themselves to listen to what the dog says. Dogs have a personal space, when communicating with them, try not to violate it, because you yourself probably do not like it when they pinch your cheeks, climb into your face. You can pet the dog when it approaches you without fear, is relaxed and does not run away. Respect other people's feelings.

Why do dog owners love their dogs so much? Instead of buying some cute little thing for himself, the dog owner goes to the pet store and buys another toy, disc, yummy or overalls for his four-legged. In general, dog owners are not normal people. On weekends, when you can sleep, in the rain and sleet they pick up a leash (or even a leash) and go for a walk. What drives these strange people to do such things? Love. Love for the most wonderful creatures. A dog is always waiting for its owner at home: you come back tired, and a small (or not quite) miracle happily jumps on you. When a person gets a dog, he spends more time on fresh air, meets good people and finds new hobbies. All dog lovers are very good people. If not, then you probably do not know this person well or he is not a dog person at all. With a dog, a person begins to do what he never thought to start. He has a daily routine, the dog will remind you that it's time to walk or eat. There are many reasons to love dogs. Dogs smell delicious, they have wet noses. It's not scary to watch scary movies with a dog. But the most important thing is that a dog's love is disinterested, she loves her person more than herself.
Love animals and animals will love you! Feed tits, cats in the cold, do not touch unfamiliar dogs unnecessarily, take care of your pets, admire nature.

Most people love animals. But for some, it crosses all boundaries. Is everyone able to keep nine dogs in the house? To many, this will seem unthinkable. Meanwhile, an elderly couple from a French village is left with nine dogs and puppies after police and veterinarians seized 55 more from them. And this case is not isolated.

Most often, lonely elderly women turn their own housing into a nursery for homeless animals. The image of the "crazy cat lady" has long become collective. There is such a lady among minor characters The Simpsons, a similar pensioner lives next door to Harry Potter's uncle and aunt in J.K. Rowling's novels. Yes and in real life every second city dweller can remember a strange woman, from whose apartment barking or meowing is constantly heard, and from front door- an unpleasant smell.

From the point of view of psychologists, this is how animal lovers try to feel needed. Usually it all starts with one stray kitten or puppy. The animal becomes attached to the mistress, expresses her love and gratitude to her, so she brings home another unfortunate foundling without hesitation. There are five, seven, ten dogs or cats... Sooner or later they begin to bear offspring, because the owners, as a rule, cannot even think of sterilizing their pets. Often, neighbors throw their kittens to a compassionate pensioner, believing that she will find the time and strength to take care of everyone. From some point on, there is not enough space or money for an impromptu shelter, but its owners can no longer stop.

The authorities will not needlessly interfere in the relationship of people with their pets. So, the veterinary services have no claims against Kim Green from Pennsylvania. Although 58 cats have gathered in her house for several years, the woman still has time to look after them: they are all sterilized, there is enough food and trays for everyone, and in order for the animals to have enough space, Green moved to a bigger house. Local media reported that the woman was looking for volunteers to play with the cats.

In early 2008, a Russia Today video about a Novosibirsk resident who adopted more than a hundred cats in a three-room apartment was widely circulated. Western viewers hardly paid attention to the fact that even the name of the owner of the shelter corresponds to her hobby - Kotova. The cats featured in the TV show looked healthy, fluffy and happy with life, and the hostess herself was amazed at the callousness of the inhabitants of Siberia, who can easily walk past a cat freezing in a snowdrift. For each pet of Mrs. Kotova, there was almost a meter of living space. By the way, the woman who devoted her life to cats is not even forty years old.

But at Raisa Glazunova from Ukrainian Borisopol, cats inhabit the apartment twice as densely: there are more than ninety cats and several dogs per forty square meters of housing. That is more than two cats per square meter.

Apparently, the craziest cat and dog ladies live in the UK. Unimaginable herds of animals are confiscated from British pensioners and pensioners. So, in 2005, the trial of old woman who kept 271 animals, mostly dogs, in her home. She also began to collect homeless animals to make their lives better, but she could not stop in time: there was not enough space in the cottage, dogs, cats and even birds lived in cramped cages, in darkness, stuffiness and dirt. There were plenty of rats in the house, besides, the woman did not have time to feed all her pets, and, of course, she never walked them. Nine of the dogs seized from her had to be euthanized because the animals were terminally ill and suffering greatly.

Another British couple (as usual childless) had 269 animals seized in 2003. Appeared in the press complete list pets: 244 dogs (mostly small breeds), 7 cats, 16 parrots, a rabbit and a chinchilla. Many of them needed the help of veterinarians.

It is often found that the mental disorders of animal lovers become dangerous for their pets. So, in Sacramento, California, a 47-year-old man was arrested, who, along with his 81-year-old mother, picked up stray cats on the streets. Thirty animals and the corpses of another three hundred cats were found at his home. The police did not specify what he did with the animals, but it was known that most of the dead cats were found in refrigerators.

In most civilized countries it is forbidden to breed cats or dogs for food. The Moscow authorities adopted the corresponding law five years ago, the Kyiv authorities two years ago. By the way, immediately after taking office, Kyiv mayor Leonid Chernovetsky expressed concern that there were a lot of stray animals on the streets of the city and urged the people of Kiev to give them shelter. Chernovetsky himself sets an example for the residents of Kyiv: in addition to a cat, in 2006 he had four hedgehogs, a ferret and an otter. What happened to them now, unfortunately, is unknown.

Another Ukrainian politician- Luhansk deputy Yury Evdokimov - maintains a zoo at home. In addition to six guard and service dogs, he has a dozen puppies, pheasants, crows, cats, a parrot and even raccoon dogs. True, Evdokimov was once the owner of pet stores and knows how to provide animals with good care.

Exotic pets are another concern for veterinarians. For example, only under licenses in the UK, one and a half thousand monkeys live with private individuals. And how many exotic animals are sold on the black market, killed in smuggling, or die from improper care, you can't find out exactly.

People keep crocodiles, ostriches and wolves at home. However, it should be noted that all reports of tamed manuls turned out to be false. Pallas' cat does not live at home. It is often necessary to hear horror stories about how a man who kept seven monitor lizards at home, his pets. Or, for example, about a woman who bred a hundred tarantulas at home, and then moved and left the spiders to her neighbors.

Many exotic acquisitions are associated with the onset of a particular year according to Chinese calendar. Prone to superstition and not constrained by means, people either rush to buy monitor lizards, in the hope that they will pass for dragons, or they give birth to tiger cubs at home. In 2008, everything went relatively smoothly - just increased demand for rats and hamsters. But 2009 will be the year of the bull. Let's hope this doesn't force city dwellers to buy cows.

If the soul is the ability to love, be devoted and grateful, then animals have her in more than many people. — James Herriot

The greatness and moral progress of a nation can be measured by how that nation treats to animals. - Mahatma Gandhi

Even in my youth I renounced meat-eating, and the time will come when people, like me, will look at the killer of animals the same way they now look at the killer of man. - Leonardo da Vinci

Vernadsky - amazing person He spoke 15 languages!!
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, a thinker and naturalist, believed that Man would change in the future.
The day will come when Man will not eat plants and animals, but He Himself, like plants, will use the energy of sunlight and synthesize the vitamins and minerals necessary for the construction of His body.
- Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich

A fur coat is a cemetery. True woman will not wear a cemetery. - Brigitte Bardot

Don't leave the animals... please, they are the most loyal and love you no matter who you are or how much money you have.
- Elchin Safarli

"There are feelings in the animal world too, and they are much deeper than in humans, because they come from the heart, and not because of profit."

If only humans could love the way cats love, the world would be a paradise.

If only once a person realizes the possibility of doing without animal food, this will mean not only a fundamental economic revolution, but also a noticeable progress in the morality and morality of society. - Maurice Maeterlinck

For it is impossible to animals fit with human standards. Their world is older and more perfect than ours, and they themselves are more complete and perfect beings than you and I... Animals- not smaller brothers our and not poor relatives; they are other nations who, together with us, have fallen into the network of life, into the network of time; just like us, prisoners of earthly splendor and earthly suffering.
— Henry Beston, naturalist writer.

Cruelty to animals cannot exist where people are truly educated, nor where true learning reigns. This cruelty is one of the most characteristic sins of a base and ignoble people. — Alexander Humboldt

True human culture is possible only if not only cannibalism, but also any enjoyment of meat, is considered cannibalism. - Wilhelm Bush

Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends! - J. Bernard Shaw

You have just had lunch; and no matter how carefully, at a respectful distance of a few or many kilometers, a slaughterhouse is hidden, - you are an accomplice. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the suffering that man inflicts on animals will return again to man. - Pythagoras

Due to its purely physical effect on human temperament, a vegetarian way of life could influence the fate of mankind to the highest degree. - Albert Einstein

All living things are afraid of suffering, all living things are afraid of death; know yourself not only in man, but in every living being, do not kill and do not cause suffering and death. All living things want the same thing as you; understand thyself in every living being.
- Shakyamuni Buddha.

Poor crushed the insect suffers like a dying giant.
- William Shakespeare

I contend that scientists have not yet discovered the full potential of nutritional value that the leaves, fruits and seeds of plants can provide to mankind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

When George Bernard Shaw, 70, was once asked how he felt on a vegetarian diet he replied, “Wonderful! Only doctors bother me very much, who all the time say that I will die without meat! When, 20 years later, the same person asked Shaw about his current state of health, he exclaimed: “Great! you know, all those doctors who unanimously claimed that I would die if I didn’t eat meat - they themselves have died a long time ago, so now no one bothers me!

Humanity is not defined by how we treat other people. Humanity is defined by how we turn with animals.
- Chuck Palahniuk

It cannot be said that people have become like animals. It offends the animals.

"Vegetarianism- a worthy way to get rid of barbaric habits"
- Nikola Tesla.

"...it is forbidden to animals fit with human standards. Their world is older than ours and more perfect, and they themselves are more complete and perfect beings than we are. Animals- not lesser brothers and not poor relatives, they are other peoples who, together with us, have fallen into the network of life, into the network of time; just like us, captives of earthly splendor and earthly suffering"
— Henry Beston

“Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is in all the earth, and every tree bearing fruit of a tree yielding seed: this shall be food for you.”
(- Bible, Genesis 1:29)

"This is an everlasting law throughout all your generations; in all your dwellings, you shall not eat any fat or any blood."
(- Bible, Leviticus 3:17)

"It is absolutely impossible to gain health, happiness, longevity and most importantly - the joy of life, destroying and exploiting all other beautiful pure creatures for devouring and other dirty human deeds: for clothes, medicine, hunting, in circuses, zoos"
- Stanislav Zaborovsky, animal rights activist.

meat food by its influence on the subtle body of the mind, it destroys the voice of conscience in a person, as a result, the ability to distinguish bad from good disappears.
-Torsunov Oleg Gennadievich

"And if any of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that are among you, eat any blood, then I will set My face on his soul, whoever eats the blood, and I will cut it off from her people."
(- Bible, Leviticus 17:10)

"He who kills an ox is the same as killing a man"
— Bible, Isaiah 66:3

Don't quit animals...please, they are the most loyal and love you no matter who you are or how much money you have.
- Elchin Safarli

The world is so rich, so beautiful with all the luxury of its gifts for our happiness - why should we darken it with murders, shedding of blood? Is it really possible to live as a murderer with a clear conscience! ... It is clear that this is a misunderstanding of a savage soul, the rough remnants of the still primitive existence of bestial, wild humanity ...
- Natalya Nordman, wife of I.E. Repin

This is terrible! Not the suffering and death of living beings, but the way a person unnecessarily suppresses the highest spiritual principle in himself, a feeling of compassion and pity towards living beings like him - and, trampling own feelings becomes violent. But how strong is this commandment in the human heart - not to kill the living!
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Animals, which are few, were listed in the Red Book, and which are many - in the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food.
- Faina Ranevskaya

It is our duty, as guardians of the planet, to treat all creatures with kindness, love, and compassion. That animals suffer from human cruelty is beyond comprehension. Help stop this madness
- Richard Gere is a staunch vegetarian

Whoever has not learned to respect the life of any incarnated creature will not be able to take the next step on the Path of cognition of Tao.
- LAO TZU

You need to pray sincerely - then you are much less drawn to boiled food and meat. And in general, less food is needed with prayer. If a person eats a lot, then this is a sign of slagging of the body and a small influx of higher energies.

"I feel sorry for women who still buy real fur, they don't know what it's like to be a woman - to have a heart and a soul."
- Jane Meadows

I prefer to eat what has no eyes. The eyes are the soul, and what has a soul can hardly be useful for the body.
- Jean-Claude van Damme (vegetarian)

"If you love animals, don't eat them, and if you do, don't say you love them"

If only once a person realizes the possibility of doing without animal food, this will mean not only a fundamental economic revolution, but also a noticeable progress in the morality and morality of society.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

"Buying beautiful shoes, that have been skinned from another creature when others are available modern materials, do not think that you are a civilized person. You are absolutely uncultured and primitive, and most importantly, you have no soul"
- Stanislav Zaborovsky, animal rights activist.

"Auschwitz starts where someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks they're just animals." - Theodor Adorno, philosopher, sociologist, musicologist

To understand whether an animal has a soul, you must have a soul yourself.
- Lev Tolstoy

The killing and eating of animals occurs, most importantly, because people have been assured that animals are destined by God for the use of people and that there is nothing wrong in killing animals. But this is not true. In whatever books it is written that it is not a sin to kill animals, it is written in the hearts of all of us more clearly than in books that an animal must be pitied just like a person, and we all know this if we do not drown out our conscience.
- Lev Tolstoy

When we kill animals for food, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for humans.
- William Roberts, MD.

"If a group of beings from another planet landed on Earth - beings who would consider themselves superior to you, just as you feel towards animals - would you allow them to treat you the way you treat other animals?"

Why demand an account from me, why do I eat like a decent person? If I were to eat the burnt corpses of innocent beings, you would have reason to ask me why I do this.
- George Bernard Shaw, writer

"And it's strange why modern society indignant at the killers, when she herself continuously, without thinking about it, feeds on the corpses of animals, more or less modified by culinary art, so to speak, arranges a "cemetery" in her stomach.
- O.K. Zelenkova "Vegetarian".

"The city will cease to be healthy if its inhabitants begin to eat meat, and life will cease to be simple and fair."
- Plato

"I have seen people who are in many ways less intelligent than bright chimpanzees - and I declare this as a psychologist." - Professor Richard D. Ryder

"It is absolutely impossible to gain health, happiness, longevity and most importantly - the joy of life, destroying and exploiting all other beautiful pure creatures for devouring and other dirty human deeds: clothes, medicine, hunting, circuses, zoos"
- Stanislav Zaborovsky, animal rights activist

“I heard the screams of my father dying of cancer, and I realized that I knew these screams. I heard them in slaughterhouses, in dog meat markets, on cattle ships, from a dying mother of a whale calling for her child, while while the whaling harpoon that pierced her head explodes in her brain. Their cries are my father's cries. I learned that when we suffer, we are all equal. The cries of suffering are the same in all animal species and in all languages."
- Philip Vollen, Vice President of the Bank, vegan.

"I don't see the difference at all between killing an animal and killing a human."
- Alisa Selezneva. "One hundred years ahead." Kir Bulychev

"If you stop eating apples, no one will notice, stop eating cakes - no one will notice, stop eating sour cream and yogurt - no one will notice. But as soon as you stop eating meat, everyone around starts to worry. Do you know why? Because it changes fate ."
- O.G. Torsunov

Flesh is not the optimal food for humans and historically was not included in the diet of our ancestors. Meat is a secondary, derivative product, because initially all food is supplied by the plant world. In meat and animal products, there is nothing useful or indispensable for the human body, which could not be found in plant foods.
— John Harvey Kellogg

"Compassion for animals is so closely related to kindness of character that it is safe to say that one who is cruel to animals cannot be kind."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

How can we hope that peace and prosperity will reign on earth if our bodies are living graves in which dead animals are buried?
- Lev Tolstoy.

"If a person is serious and sincere in the search for morality, then the first thing he should turn away from is meat-eating ... Vegetarianism is considered a criterion by which one can recognize how serious and true a person's desire for moral perfection is."
- Lev Tolstoy.

Don't make your stomachs animal graves.

"We, the heads Christian Church, we refrain from meat food in order to keep our flesh in subjection ... meat-eating is contrary to nature and defiles us.
- St. John Chrysostom

"He who builds up his body by eating the flesh of other creatures dooms himself to suffering, in whatever body he is born."
- Mahabharata

In my opinion, the life of a lamb is no less valuable than the life of a human being. I contend that the more helpless a creature is, the more entitled it is to receive protection against man's cruelty.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I do not regard the flesh of slaughtered animals as essential food for us. On the contrary, I am convinced that it is unacceptable for a person to eat meat.
- Mahatma Gandhi

For the sake of a piece of meat, we deprive animals of the life to which they have the same right as we do.
- Plutarch's Treatise "On the Eating of Flesh"

- Buddhist wisdom

Meat carries a destructive algorithm - a program that means one thing to you - self-destruction. This is the corpse of a once living creature that had a relatively high level awareness, which means that the being was aware that he was being killed when he was killed, and this last thought form was sealed into his body as a program - that's what it means.
- Vadim Zeland "Apocryphal Transurfing"

"The day will come when Man will not eat plants and animals, but Himself, like plants, will use the energy of sunlight and synthesize vitamins and minerals necessary for the construction of His body."
- Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky - an amazing Man, he spoke 15 languages, a thinker and naturalist, he believed that Man would change in the future.

"... a person can feed on energy from the air, "prana", assimilating nitrogen from the environment through nitrogen-fixing microorganisms using cold nuclear fusion..."
- Galina Sergeevna Shatalova, neurosurgeon, who lived to be 94 years old

Compassion for animals is so closely related to kindness of character that it is safe to say that one who is cruel to animals cannot be kind.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes, after a conversation with a person, you want to shake the paw of a dog in a friendly way, smile at a monkey, bow to an elephant.
- Maksim Gorky

“It is a sad irony that we often peer into space, wondering if there are still intelligent beings, while we are surrounded by thousands of species of intelligent beings, whose abilities we have not yet learned to discover, appreciate and respect ... »
- Dr. Will Tuttle

"Vegetarianism works like a purification. When you eat animals, you are more under the law of necessity. You become heavy, you are more drawn to the earth. If you are a vegetarian, you are light, you are more of the law of grace, the law of strength, and you begin to be drawn to the sky." .
- OSHO

"The world is not a thing, and animals are not raw materials for our needs. More than mercy, our duty towards animals is justice.
- Arthur Schopeng

Wearing fur today is a shame. This is how primitive people dressed, but they had no choice.
- Artemy Troitsky

Stylish people don't wear animal fur today. Beauty is incompatible with cruelty.
- Laima Vaikule

A fur coat is a cemetery. A true woman will not wear a cemetery.
- Brigitte Bardot

No - cruelty in my heart, no - fur in my wardrobe!
- Fur is worn by beautiful animals or ugly people
- Respect the right to life, give up fur!
Fur is hell for animals and the environment.
Traps are a hell of a pain for your fur coat.

Is it cool to dress up as corpses?

Buying fur - contract killing!

Here are dogs, they are like medicine: they heal, save people, strengthen nervous system. After eighty, everyone should have a dog. She will save you, help you with your daily routine better than any doctor.
- George Vitsin

Georgy Vitsin practiced yoga, was a vegetarian. He lived modestly, but fed street cats, dogs and pigeons. When he was asked: "Do you have a dream?" He replied: "For people to feed the animals."
And when they buried him, then everything stray dogs and the birds that he fed, along with the crowd of people, came out to see him on his last journey.

If you pick up a hungry dog ​​and make his life full, he will never bite you. This is the fundamental difference between a dog and a human.
- Mark Twain

We are part of a generation of shame; when future generations look back at the way we treated animals, they will be horrified.
- Jill Robinson, Founder of the Animals of Asia Foundation

Killing an animal to make a fur coat out of it is a sin. A woman acquires status when she REFUSES to carry a dead animal on her shoulders. Only then is she truly beautiful.
- Doris Day

Just as it is now considered vile and shameful to give birth to children, arrange gladiator fights, torture captives and commit other atrocities that no one before seemed either reprehensible or contrary to a sense of justice, so the time is coming when it will be considered immoral and impermissible to kill animals and eat their corpses. .
- Dr. Zimmerman

God help me to be the person my dog ​​thinks I am.
- Janusz Wisniewski

The degradation of mankind began with the loss of knowledge about the subtle body. As a result, people have ceased to understand the subtle effect of food on consciousness... Man, together with meat, constantly absorbs the power of animal suffering, so meat kills happiness.
- Doctor Torsunov.

"... if meat-eating were an indifferent matter, meat-eaters would not attack vegetarianism; they are irritated because they recognize their sin, but are not yet able to free themselves from it."
- L. N. Tolstoy

"For animals, man is God. As we ask God for help, so they ask for help from man."
- Paisius Svyatogorets

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. Everything else is a waste of energy and time.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is almost no time for the transition to vegetarianism, since the beginning of 2013 begins new era. The governing energies are changing. Just meat-eaters can run into heart attacks, strokes, etc. It's their choice, but they should know about it...
- Igor Globa

Vegetarian nutrition is a great art, it will completely replace your medications. Every food is a medicine if it is used in accordance with knowledge of the mechanism of action on the body, properly prepared and taken in required quantity. Spices should be studied and used in food in the right proportions which will lead you to a speedy recovery.
- Oleg Gennadievich Torsunov

Look for your DISEASE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PLATE
- Chinese folk wisdom

You are what you eat
- Hippocrates

With callousness bad attitude to people, cruelty, excessive affection to things there is a craving for meat. These products are defiled, the power of death increases in a person from their use.
- Oleg Torsunov

Shame on you to put the product of agriculture on the same level as the torn victim of the massacre.
- Plutarch

Nothing will bring such benefits to human health and increase the chances of preserving life on Earth as the spread of vegetarianism.
- Albert Einstein

I believe that the vegetarian diet, if only because of its purely physical effect on the human temperament, should be extremely beneficial to the fate of mankind.
- Albert Einstein

"To understand whether animals have a soul, you must have a soul yourself."

“There are feelings in the animal world too, and they are much deeper than in humans, because they come from the heart, and not because of profit.

If the soul is the ability to love, be devoted and grateful, then animals have it to a greater extent than many people.
— James Herriot

"The world is not a thing, and animals are not raw materials for our needs. More than mercy, our duty towards animals is justice."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"By killing animals for food, a person suppresses the highest spiritual feelings in himself - compassion and pity for other living beings like him - and, stepping over himself, hardens his heart."
- Lev Tolstoy.

In Norway, they introduced a day without meat, however, so far for military personnel. This is very correct. Meat is very harmful product. Norway - rich country, they are well aware that people need to be accustomed to more vegetarian food.
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky

"How can we hope that peace and prosperity will reign on earth if our bodies are living graves in which dead animals are buried?"
- Lev Tolstoy

Why argue about vegetarianism? It needs to be practiced. As long as you eat meat, you cannot comprehend it.
- Alexander Khakimov

"If the soul is the ability to love, to be faithful, to feel gratitude, then animals are more likely to go to heaven than many, many people."
- J. Harriot

"Everything that is alive is sacred." William Blake

The time will come when humanity will be humane to every creature that breathes.
— Jeremy Bentham, 1781

In the same way as in Ancient Greece, so among the ancient Romans there were great vegetarian philosophers (Horace, Ovid, Plutarch). Plutarch (45-120 AD) writes in his treatise "On Meat-Eating": "Can you really ask from what motives. Pythagoras abstained from meat-eating? For my part, I ask the question under what circumstances and in what state of mind for the first time a man dared to taste the taste of blood, to stretch his lips to the flesh of a corpse and decorate his table with dead, decaying bodies, and how he then allowed himself to call pieces of food that shortly before that had bellowed and bleated, moved and lived ... For the sake of the flesh we steal they have the sun, light and life to which they are entitled to be born."

Pythagoras (c. 500 BC), who also knew about the law of reincarnation, said: “He who cuts the throat of a cow with a knife and remains deaf to the lowing of horror, who can cold-bloodedly kill a bleating goat and dine on a bird that he himself gave food - how far is such a person from a crime?

Compassion for animals is so closely related to kindness of character that it is safe to say that one who is cruel to animals cannot be a kind person.
- A. Schopenhauer

A state that treats animals badly will always be poor and criminal.
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

I love animals for their natural purity and sincerity. They don't judge you, they don't reason, they just want to be your friends, or at least do not hide their intentions.
- Michael Jackson

"Dare to become wise! Stop killing animals! The one who puts off justice is no different from the peasant who hopes the river will become shallow before he crosses it."
- Horace (65-8 BC, Roman classical poet)

Plutarch throws down an open challenge to meat-eaters: "if you now have the desire to claim that such food is given to you by nature, then kill yourself what you want to eat, and do it with what you have from nature, but not with a butcher's knife, club or an ax."

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian scientist-genius): "Man is truly the king of animals, for he surpasses them in cruelty. We live on the death of others. We are walking cemeteries!"

Even in my youth I renounced meat-eating, and the time will come when people, like me, will look at the killer of animals in the same way as now at the killer of man.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Jean Paul (1763-1825, German poet): "O just Lord! From how many hours of hellish torment of animals does a person give out one single minute of pleasure for the tongue!"

Cruelty to animals cannot exist where people are truly educated, nor where true learning reigns. This cruelty is one of the most characteristic sins of a base and ignoble people.
- Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859, founder of scientific geography)

"You have just had lunch; and no matter how carefully, at a respectful distance of several or many kilometers, the slaughterhouse would not hide, - you are an accomplice."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American writer and politician)

"I am a vegetarian and anti-alcohol so I can find best use my mind."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, invented, among others, the incandescent lamp, gramophone and microphone)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher): "All ancient philosophy was oriented towards the simplicity of life and taught some unpretentiousness. In this sense, few vegetarian philosophers have done humanity a greater service than all new philosophers, and as long as these philosophers if they don’t muster up the courage and go in search of a completely different way of life, and don’t show it by their own example, they will remain an empty place.

"If a person is serious and sincere in search of morality, then the first thing he should turn away from is meat-eating ... Vegetarianism is considered a criterion by which one can recognize how serious and true a person's desire for moral perfection"
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian writer)

True human culture is possible only if not only cannibalism, but also any enjoyment of meat, is considered cannibalism.
- Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908, German writer and graphic artist)

Emile Zola (1840-1902, French writer): "The question of animals is more important to me than the concern about whether I will be ridiculed."

Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends!
- J. Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, English-Irish playwright)

Sven Hedin (1865-1952, Swedish explorer of Asia): "I could never make up my mind to put out the fire of life, I cannot rekindle it."

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, Alsatian theologian and missionary doctor, 1952 Nobel Prize winner): "My opinion is that we must come out in defense of animals, completely abandon meat-eating and speak out against it."

Franz Kafka (1883-1924, Austro-Czech writer): "Now I can contemplate you in peace; I don't eat you anymore." (when looking at fish in an aquarium)

I think that spiritual progress will require us at some point to stop killing the living beings around us to satisfy the whims of our bodies.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian politician and representative of the Nonviolent Resistance Movement)

The greatness and moral progress of a nation can be measured by how that nation treats animals.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Due to its purely physical effect on human temperament, a vegetarian way of life could influence the fate of mankind to the highest degree.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-American physicist, Nobel laureate 1921)

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904, American writer, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature): "We are all God's creations - and our prayers for God's mercy and justice are inconsistent with the fact that we continue to eat the meat of animals that are slaughtered at our whim" .

"I would go away to live a vegetarian life even if the whole world started eating meat. This is my protest against the state of the world. Atomic Energy, want and hunger, cruelty - we must make efforts against it. Vegetarianism is my move. And I think very important."

“Cruelty towards animals, as well as indifference to their suffering, is, in my opinion, one of the gravest sins of the human race. This is the source of human depravity. If a person creates so much suffering, then what right does he have to complain when he himself suffers?
- Romain Rolland (1866-1944, French writer; 1915 Nobel Prize winner in literature).

In the book "Paedagogus" (II, 1) by Clemens of Alexandria (15O-215) it is said that the Apostle Matthew "lived on vegetable food and did not touch meat."

The Greek chronicler Eusebius (264-339), Bishop of Caesarea, points out in his "History of the Church" (II 2.3) that the Apostle and Evangelist John was a strict ascetic and vegetarian. And the Apostle Peter testifies in the Clementine Homilies (XII, 6): "I eat bread and olives, and very rarely add vegetables."

How Meat Eating Entered the Bible Up to the 4th century A.D. traces of early Christian communities in Palestine, Byzantium, Greece and Alexandria (Egypt) indicated that alcohol and meat eating were not allowed. They received knowledge of the teachings of Christ from the many scriptures available at the time.

All the suffering that man inflicts on animals will return again to man.
- Pythagoras

As long as people slaughter animals, they will kill each other. And, indeed, the one who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
- Pythagoras

"As long as there are massacres, there will be wars"
- Lev Tolstoy

Animals have a soul. I saw it in their eyes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Not because man is superior to other beings because he heartlessly torments them, but because he is compassionate towards all living things.
- Shakyamuni Buddha

I don't trust people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when he doesn't like a person...

The soul is in everything and everyone. Look closely and you will find a fairy tale everywhere. Everyone is needed and important.
— Charles De Lint

He who, for the sake of his happiness, kills or tortures other beings, just as he strives for happiness, does not find happiness after death.
- Dhammapada

Cats are different. A cat does not change its attitude towards a person, even if it is in its interests. A cat cannot be hypocritical... If a cat loves you, you know it. If you don't like it, you know it too.
- Stephen King

"The one who kills animals and causes them unnecessary suffering - as people do in slaughterhouses - will be killed in the next and in many other lives in the same way. Such crimes are never forgiven. If a person kills many thousands of animals professionally, so that other people can buy meat for food, he must know that in next life life after life he will be killed in the same way."

When an animal does something, we call it instinct; when a person does the same, we call it intelligence.
- Will Cappy

Animal instinct is more perfect than our mind.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

In order to love the Creator, one must first learn to love His Creation!

• copying
• Warm feelings
• Loyalty
• The cure for loneliness
• Totems and talismans
• Repetition of the path of mankind
• Maternal instinct

Their popularity is off scale - today animals are even more famous on the net than world stars and politicians. Hundreds of sites are devoted to them, and the most unusual pets become famous and earn millions of dollars for their owners. Animals accompany us everywhere and become members of our family.

Why do we love animals? Why do furry and feathered pets take up so much space in our lives that we are willing to spend a lot of time and money on them? Physicians, sociologists and psychologists can answer these questions.

copying

The imitation of our behavior subconsciously makes us trust the creature and desire to be its friend. Thus, psychologists say that the most The best way to ingratiate himself with a person is to copy his gestures.

In the same way, animals "rub" us into trust - getting into the human environment, they adopt our habits, manners and even character. No wonder they say that dogs always look like their owners. There are animals that have perfected copying. For example, parrots repeating words after us.

But animals also have natural habits that we tend to humanize. See how tenderly a mother-monkey cuddles her cub or how elephants solemnly gather near the body of a dead relative, waving their ears sadly and lowering their heads ...

Note that animals in the circus are also first taught to imitate humans. Dogs carry cats in carriages, bears ride bicycles, and horses dance with trainers. And even cartoon animals speak human language, wear clothes, live in houses and experience only the experiences that are characteristic of us.

The attraction of opposites

When choosing a pet, a person often looks for an animal that has opposite qualities of appearance or character. Sometimes the owner subconsciously finds an animal with those properties that he himself lacks. impulsive and emotional person can opt for a cold-blooded python, and a closed and unsociable one will make friends with a cheerful, loving poodle.

Psychologists also believe that lonely people choose an animal in which they see the qualities of their potential partner - tenderness, devotion, strength or beauty.

Warm feelings

Animals help people fill the emotions they lack in communicating with people. The harsh world, where man is a wolf to man, tires you with the need to always be on your guard and protect your emotions from the invasion of aggressive personalities. Animals are more trusting, open and friendly than we are - that's why people love animals.

Such emotional attachment is more characteristic of city dwellers - they usually get animals simply so that they bring positive things to their owners and love them disinterestedly. The inhabitants of the villages treat domestic animals with a solid share of pragmatism - the chicken should lay eggs, the cat should catch mice, and the dog should guard the yard.

However, this does not mean that the owner of the rural farmstead does not have any feelings for his animals. He can love his chain dog and affectionately slap a meek cow on the side.

There are many stories when the military was dying of hunger, but could not kill their favorite horse, or members of polar expeditions shared the last fish with sled dogs. Thus, they proved that harsh men also have a feeling of love and care for those who know how to worship us so sincerely.

Loyalty

The greatest dream of every person is to be loved simply for what he is. But it happens so rarely… People are loved for their beauty, wealth, connections, status and so on. And each of us knows that, being in trouble, he can lose friends, family, a loved one.

But animals love us just like that - they don’t care how much money the owner has, how handsome, smart and noble he is. Dogs love even the owners who beat them, stray dogs faithfully look into the eyes of the homeless owner. They forgive all mistakes, never reproach for anything, demand nothing.

The pet is always glad to see his owner, and if necessary, he will give his life for him.

Animals can be trusted, they will not turn away if you get sick or lose property. Therefore, they evoke in us a feeling of love and gratitude - in a world where there is so much betrayal, they remain reliable pillars of loyalty and devotion.

The cure for loneliness

Not all people have a family - sadly, but loneliness lives in many apartments and houses. So they get a pet, so that there is someone to return to, so that someone is waiting for them. For such lonely people, the animal replaces the family and children, helping to realize one of the most important needs - to care for and patronize someone weak and defenseless.

How more people suffers from loneliness, the more likely it is that he will bring home an ordinary outbred ragamuffin, finding him on the street.

Totems and talismans

Long ago, people worshiped animals, seeing in them the embodiment of divine powers. There were clan totems, whose representatives could not be killed, because the patron could be offended and bring down punishment on the tribe.

Today, echoes of a reverent attitude towards representatives of the fauna can be found in animal mascots and signs about pets. Tricolor cats bring good luck, and black ones drive away evil spirits - many still believe in this. People still tend to endow animals with magical qualities, which is why they try to settle them at home. After all, everyone is pleased when a piece of a miracle lives nearby.

Repetition of the path of mankind

There is a theory according to which each person repeats the path of development of civilization with his life. Therefore, in childhood, we so want to get a dog or a cat, because the domestication of animals is one of early stages the formation of people.

Maternal instinct

One of the most stable images fixed in our memory is the image of a child who is the same in the collective consciousness of all generations of people. According to one version, we are so touched by animals because many of them have the proportions of children. What animals evoke the most warm feelings? Bear cubs, raccoons, cats, koalas ... It is their forms that are closest to the structure of the child's body: big head, little paws.

When looking at such an animal, the parental instinct immediately wakes up in us - the cutie wants to be fed, warmed, stroked. By the way, the activation of the maternal instinct increases efficiency and attentiveness. Therefore, we can say that animals inspire us to labor and life exploits.

Feeling of self worth and ambition

In their devoted and blind love, animals are defenseless before us, they are completely dependent on our will and decisions. They are never growing children.

By the way, psychologists have noticed that children who grew up next to pets are much more curious, friendlier and more open to everything new. In addition, they rarely turn out to be selfish. Small child communicates with an animal on an equal footing, while an adult is for him a higher and more complex being.

Animals are able to experience most feelings, human- love, jealousy, resentment. Therefore, they are for us something like truncated copies of a person.

There are owners whom the awareness of power over the animal makes more significant in their own eyes. The life of a dog depends on the owner: on whether he feeds her, whether he takes her to the veterinarian in case of illness.

Moreover, a pet can be taught to carry out commands - then broad prospects open up for satisfying the unrealized ambitions of the great commander.

The doctor who is always with you

Doctors and psychologists have long discovered the relationship between the presence of a pet in the house and the health of its owners. Where animals live, more comfortable energy. They help normalize blood pressure, cheer up and literally treat their owners.

Cats are the most successful in this matter - they themselves climb onto sore spot and warm it, setting up the energy field of the owner with their purring in the right way.

People who have dumb pets at home are less stressed, more cheerful, optimistic, healthy and athletic. We can say that animals bring harmony, joy and happiness into our lives. positive outlook for life. And how not to love them after that?

P.S. About how to choose a pet, psychologist's advice.

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