Consideration towards animals: Hanumân jî and Prophet Muhammad

According to the 7th century A.D. work Bhattikâvya, Hanumân jî tiptoed gently into the Ashok grove as he did not want a single sleeping bird to be woken up because of him.
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, once awoke to find a cat sleeping on his cloak. On the one hand the Prophet had to get up and go. On the other, he did not want to wake the cat. So he noiselessly cut the portion that the cat was on away from the rest of the cloak.
HT 26 Aug 06