Love Quote by Paul O'Grady

There is something disarmingly tactical about how plain this is. No sermonizing about “rescue,” no self-mythologizing, no tear-jerker cue. Paul O’Grady frames animal care not as sainthood but as pleasure: “I love… I find it very enjoyable.” Coming from a comedian, the simplicity reads like a punchline that refuses to arrive. That’s the point. He undercuts the cultural expectation that compassion must be performed as anguish or moral superiority.

The intent feels quietly corrective. In the UK, animal welfare is often wrapped in either stiff-upper-lip practicality or saccharine sentimentality. O’Grady sidesteps both. “Looking after” is domestic, almost humble: not “saving,” not “advocating,” just the daily labor of feeding, cleaning, calming. The subtext is that care is a practice, not a personality. Enjoyment doesn’t cheapen it; it sustains it. He’s giving permission to do good without becoming insufferable about it.

Context matters because O’Grady’s public persona blended sharp humor with genuine warmth, especially in his later years as a beloved animal welfare presenter. The line also quietly mirrors his comic ethic: find the human scale in big feelings. By admitting he likes it, he rejects martyrdom and invites imitation. If caring for animals is enjoyable, it becomes accessible - not a niche for the pious, but something ordinary people might actually choose to do on a Tuesday.