When his wife died he got into the habit of telling animal stories to his five-year-old son.
Mrs. Clinton used this episode as a political weapon in August, telling animal rights protesters that the Trumps had "killed a lot of animals".
Human beings are story-telling animals, and the feelings of outrage and injustice and the impulse of generosity and fairness that moved people toward action to help Karen Klein are part of what is fundamentally good about humanity.
If only his human characters were as interesting, the reviewer said: "I wanted Mr. Shipman to get back to the horses, for he is one of the few writers who can tell animal stories without wallowing in bathos".
"His life is all about playing and running," friar Jorge Fernandez told animal welfare site The Dodo this week.
You know when you read about Tories who have been caught setting fire to money in front of homeless people, or fox hunters who have told animal-rights activists they'd like to shag them?
Animals in the wild urinate around the perimeter of their territory to tell other animals to keep out.
How can they tell what animals their fossils come from?
But I didn't need either Pope to tell me animals have souls.
Tell the animals that this weather is good weather when their homes are just decimated by weather.
There are tons of books told by animals – from Black Beauty to War Horse – and as a child I roared through a ton of them.
