"Train your children from their earliest days to be infinitely tender and loving to animals."

Laika,  photo by TG

"Therefore is it essential that ye show forth the utmost consideration to the animal, and that ye be even kinder to him than to your fellow man.

Train your children from their earliest days to be infinitely tender and loving to animals. If an animal be sick, let the children try to heal it, if it be hungry, let them feed it, if thirsty, let them quench its thirst, if weary, let them see that it rests."

– Abdu’l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, p. 158.