You Get These Fear Memories That Are

I'm A Visual Thinker, Really Bad At Algebra. There's Others That Are A Pattern Thinker. These Are The Music And Math Minds. They Think In Patterns Instead Of Pictures. Then There's Another Type That's Not A Visual Thinker At All, And They're The Ones That Memorize All Of The Sports Statistics, All Of The Weather Statistics.

We Owe Them [animals] A Decent Life And A Decent Death, And Their Lives Should Be As Low-stress As Possible. That's My Job. I Wish Animals Could Have More Than Just A Low-stress Life And A Quick, Painless Death. I Wish Animals Could Have A Good Life, Too, With Something Useful To Do. People Were Animals, Too, Once, And When We Turned Into Human Beings We Gave Something Up. Being Close To Animals Brings Some Of It Back.

One Of The Big Areas I'd Like To See A Lot More Research Done On Is The Sensory Problems, And It's Real Variable. One Kid's Got Sound Sensitivity; Another One Can't Tolerate Fluorescent Lights. I Can't Stand Scratchy Clothes.

I've Got A Lot Of People That Are Really Good At Taming Animals And Working With Animals; And They Can't Explain How They Do. They Just Get A Feeling From The Animal.

Giving Those Animals [in Shelter] Quality Time - Now, I Have Been In Some Of The Shelters Where The Cats Have Been In Group Housing. Well If You Have A Cat That Never Gets Out Of Sternal Recumbency, Now What That Means Is That [inaudible] - That's A Stressed Cat. If They Lay On Their Side, Then They Are Not Stressed Out.