John Dolittle: You can't talk! Dogs don't talk!
Lucky: What the hell do you think barking is? An involuntary spasm?
Alex: (talking into a phone) Hello? Get me Missing Animals! And hurry! We've got a lost zebra, probably on the way to Connecticut by now, and we're gonna need—
(cut to the operator, who hears only growling on the other end)
Operator: Hello? Hello?
People, you will discover, consider themselves the only creatures in the universe capable of communication, and unless you ape their particular set of noises they think you can't "talk", as they call it. An idiot parrot who can be taught to screech "skin you!" is thought to be very clever. Two house-martins calling to each other the exact directions of how to get to London to East Africa are dismissed as "dumb creatures" who are "only twittering".
— Stray
Dean: Wait a minute, can I hear all animals?
The Colonel: Yep. Animals have a universal language, like Esperanto. But this one actually caught on."
The Colonel: Yep. Animals have a universal language, like Esperanto. But this one actually caught on."
Shep: Well, here at Horseland, dogs, pigs, cats, and horses can all talk. The thing is, the humans can't understand us. When they're around us, all they hear is... (howls)
Angora: (meows)
Teeny: (snorts)
Angora: (meows)
Teeny: (snorts)
Tanana: So, Kenai, you've decided to join the living! Whoo, that's quite a bump you've got there. That must've been one heck of a ride down those rapids, huh?
Kenai: Tanana? (he gets up and rubs his head; gasp) Nana, y-you won't believe this! I-I was at the top of this huge rock, and all of a sudden, this—
(cut to a different angle; Kenai is just growling and grunting)
Tanana: Kenai, honey! (shushes him) I don't speak bear.
