It is an English saying that a person who likes animals cannot be all bad. The English adore animals – all kinds of animals. They keep them, not for status or to guard their property as other nations do, but for company. Animals, especially pets, are vital to English life because pet-owning is for many English people the closest they ever get to an emotional relationship with another being. They are not always very good at talking to each other, but they excel in conversation with their animals. They touch, hug, cradle, carry and stroke them, and whisper sweet nothings into their hairy ears.
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