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.

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...

When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were...

I don’t own a cat. My cat owns a human.

When someone tells me they don’t read, I like to walk up to them and stroke their hair, pet it really, because you know who also doesn’t read? My cat. In essence, these people are...

Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you’ve ever made since the day you were born.

An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.You want something a little more colourful,...

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.

cat” in category. And not only do I put it there, but I pet it too.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

Cooper’s tremendous love and energy and unchained freedom had captured life itself. Now, as the last shovelful covered him forever, I knew I would always carry a big piece of Cooper Half Malamute with me...

And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.

Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country...

Cats are like walking brooms you can actually comfortably cuddle with.

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?’No,’ I said.People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it’s not enough just to be a dog...

If you accept that pets can love us as much as we do them, then the logic is clear and cannot be denied. If you believe that there is a heaven for people, then they...

… And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

I’ve got hair in my mouth, because I replaced my teeth with my cat. This makes it more fun to pet my gums.

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what...

Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of individuals sending this love my way. At the time it made me laugh,...