I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning; we had just about decided that the man with a lot of animals couldn’t be expected to feel affection for individuals among them. But those...

My mind went back to that picture in the obstetrics book. A cow standing in the middle of a gleaming floor while a sleek veterinary surgeon in a spotless parturition overall inserted his arm to...

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life – probably too much – in just standing and...

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.