"Tanrı insanlara bazı şeyleri keşfetmeleri için akıl verdiyse, hayvanlara da bazı şeyleri insanlardan daha çabuk ve daha kesin biçimde anlamaları için sezgi vermiş."
I often wondered why Sir Oliver, the oldest horse in the stable, had so short a tail-only about twenty centimeters long-and one day I asked him, “Did you have an accident?”
“It was no accident” he said, angrily. “My long and beautiful tail was cut off when I was a young horse. At that time, some owners thought it was fashionable!”
“How terrible!” I said.
“Yes, terrible and cruel,” said Sir Oliver. “Now I can never brush the flies off my sides or back legs, and all because of fashion. Some owners cut off the tails of their dogs to make them look brave, or cut their pretty little ears to make them look fashionable. They don’t cut off the ends of their children’s ears, do they? Why do they think it’s all right to do these things to their animals?”