Mongoose Quotes

“the Lord Ratnasambhava keeps all his treasure inside mongooses. When the god needs his gems and jewels, he squeezes one mongoose and makes it vomit them up!”
― Jane Wilson-Howarth, Himalayan Kidnap

“Three mongooses, playing chase, burst out of the undergrowth and came galumphing across the track. The leader stopped and the other two bounced on him. There was a crazy bundle of squealing fur, ears, noses and tails. The mongooses broke apart. All three stood up on hind legs to look at us.”
― Jane Wilson-Howarth, Himalayan Kidnap

“Gef’s story, which would have been nonsense even if it had not come from the mouth of a talking mongoose, was that he was born in New Delhi on June 7th, 1852. This meant he was at least eighty when he met the Irvings. On average, mongooses live twenty years, though this is the lifespan of a nonverbal mongoose. No one has yet established the longevity of one given the power of speech, but we may assume it is at least ninety.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“The only reason mongooses don’t speak regularly is that they are shy.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Physiologically, Gef was not a mongoose. He did not possess the almost canine forepaws of his supposed species but tiny articulated, three-fingered (and a thumb) appendages that could manipulate items and, as occasion demanded, squeeze the life out of the rabbits he would gift.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Mongooses lack the larynx and jaws for speech, to say nothing of the motivation.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose