Bears Need People. People Need Bears.

One Small Cat Changes Coming Home To An Empty House To Coming Home.

A Younger Sister Is Someone To Use As A Guinea-pig In Trying Sledges And Experimental Go-carts. Someone To Send On Messages To Mum. But Someone Who Needs You - Who Comes To You With Bumped Heads, Grazed Knees, Tales Of Persecution. Someone Who Trusts You To Defend Her. Someone Who Thinks You Know The Answers To Almost Everything.

If There Is A Heaven, It's Certain Our Animals Are To Be There. Their Lives Become So Interwoven With Our Own, It Would Take More Than An Archangel To Detangle Them.

It Should Be Possible To Exist With Only A Short Shelf Of Books, To Read And Give Away. After All - We May Not Open A Book, Once Read, For Ten Years Or More. But The Act Of Reading Has Made It Part Of Us - To Relinquish It Would Be To Lose An Extension Of Our Being.

A Teddy Bear Is Your Childhood Wrapped Up In Faded Yellow Fur, And As Such, He Commands Affection Long After He Is Out Grown.