2. Animals – Gods beautiful gift to mankind We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. PowerPoint by Jack Cross Slides adv manually

3. Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites

4. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful

5. My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am

6. Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this

7. Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him if he shows no mercy to what is under him?

8. One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why

9. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too."

10. The old Indian was wise. He knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too

11. Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher [quality of life] not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!

12. We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves

13. The days a man spends in nature fishing or spends hunting should not be deducted from the time that he's on earth

14. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man

15. Society must hope that the world's ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them

16. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

17. "Maybe you've been looking for love in all the wrong places. A dog will treat you better than anyone you'll meet at happy hour.

18. Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

19. "Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.“ but the more I see of Washington politicians, the more I like dogs.

20. Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow me Last Slide jcross002@comcast.net Hope you enjoyed these beautiful pictures and maybe it provoked a little thought