Nothing can quite compare.
He learnt to shut up and repress it, since it got him into too much trouble. John Dolittle grew up to become a doctor, live in the 'burbs, with a wife and 2.4 children, and pretend that animal chatter was a pre-adolescent blip on an otherwise faultless progression to a neat address on the white side of town. At the practice, his colleagues talk of nothing but money. He's a one-joke character. Sign the papers, John, take the cash, be richer.