Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

You can’t be sad when Daisy is around, she won’t let you.

Everyone is taught that angels have wings – the lucky ones of us find that they have 4 paws.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

The cat hair floated in the air like a sound vibration, and I plucked it like a guitar string. Sometimes I can be so musical I’m like a living love song.

Like pets, I name my leftover food. Only I name them all after myself, partly so my coworkers won’t eat them in the fridge, but mostly out of vanity.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Pets are supposedly a great way to meet people.

Our pets are our family.

Most people like winners, but I prefer underdogs. They’re more fun to pet.

Zonder poes komt het nooit helemaal goed

I love cats. I’ve had cats as pets.

If I have anything to say about it, pets will be evacuated on the bus so the owners will know where their pets are, … A pet can be a comfort to the owner as...

My brother’s a big dog guy. He’s 7’2” and half man, half man’s best friend.

Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog’s owner. But no man –spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort– may become a dog’s Master without...

You know what I like most about people? Pets.

Dogs (like rats) are multitalented but they are also not very smart the way humans are. A recent book, devoted to the intelligence of dogs, is 250+ pages long (Stanley Coren, The Intelligence of Dogs:...

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

We alone at the Humane Society of the United States, through our 1-800 number, logged 1,500 calls from people who lived in New Orleans and said they left their pets there,

We’re very blessed to have the system we have for our pets.

Well, if you can’t have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

As soon as I open this door, I’ll be free. FREE! No more goofy cats screaming in my face and eating my shoes. No more biting and scratching and chasing me down the street. Outside...

A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for...

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘Here are our monsters,’ without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

I have a responsibility as a human being to care for animals—including politicians.

Don’t judge a cat by its coat.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it...

We get a lot of calls where the person is murdered at home, but is not found for a period of time. And so the animals have already started to take the body apart because...

A being of light for a pet wouldn’t be furry, but it would keep you warm—and awake at night.

To go home, you usually will use that door over there.” I looked where Trom gestured and saw empty space.”What door?” I asked.”Oh, sorry. Until you go through your closet door for the first time...

I want the white one

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

I love apricots. They’re so fuzzy they’re furry. They’re like little pets you can eat legally.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the...

Often, when a human suffers through major emotional traumas, a lack of well being follows if their feelings about the trauma are not completely expressed. When the trauma is severe and the suffering is continuous,...

My cat stood still like a furry statue. I wanted to go pet it, but I ended up petting a painting instead. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Got a bout of doubt? Breathe.

Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! I always say you can’t get the same love from a dog that you can from...

Somewhere between poetry and science, somewhere between heaven and earth, clairaudience is born. Clairaudience is the sweetest mystery any human being could ever experience. Fortunately, it is the most contagious, too. Most, if not all,...

There should always be one more cat than person, so everyone has one to pet, and I have two to myself.

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of...

Dogs are special that way—you can ignore them or yell at them, they always forgive you. —Madison

There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to talk to. You can walk. One foot the other foot. Breathe in breathe out....

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

It is not only about the ones that are still here that we worry about but also about the others that are still in Louisiana. They are still trying to get pets out of the...

I nearly tripped over Stieglitz, my dog, a forty-pound black-and-white keeshond (pronounced caze-hawnd) furball. He lunged at me with unbridled glee because the mere sight of my presence always made his day. It’s important to...