The dog is the god of frolic.
We have three cats. It’s like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
I’m looking more like my dogs every day – it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
It’s difficult to understand why people don’t realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
There’s kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don’t pet her for 10 minutes she’ll bother you for six hours.
I can’t imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat’s ear.
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
