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.

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

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if...

Grab life by the tail, and then pet it.

Occasionally, a dog will be presented as some training method for having a baby. “My girlfriend and I got a dog. We are going to see if we can handle that before we have kids.”...

He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from...

My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it’s very satisfying to know that I’ve made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water...

I pet horses and ride cats, because I’m a cowman. I’m too mature to be a cowboy.

Yell The jackass bit the big one, hip-hip hooray Gloria wins, then run like the dickens before someone recognizes us.

It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close to you dies, a pet will be there to pick up the slack....

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don’t have any pets now.

New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it’s animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place...

Cats are puddles of cuteness. I stepped in one the other day that was so muddy I not only had to pet it, but cuddle with it for hours.

Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.

You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.Humans don’t like that.They view it as a sign of ingratitude.I never asked anyone to feed me.That doesn’t seem to matter to them.

Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.

A brick has no legs, so it probably slithers like a snake. Therefore, a brick might make a good pet. And at least you wouldn’t have to walk it.

Celebrities just adore their pets, which is really no different from the rest of us who think our furry little darlings are stars.

They are pets or descendants of former pets. They don’t occur naturally here.

Does a cat know he is a cat? Does a dog know he is a dog? Does nature know it is called nature? Does this planet know its name Earth? Does Sun know its name...

Her love stays with me wherever I go. That’s because I have it on a leash, like a dog, and I take it for walks like I do with my pet wheelchair.

I like how cats’ ears can flip inside out. It’s as if they’re saying, Keep talking, human, but I’m not even listening.

Over the years I’ve come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up...

Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyond the bottom of the stairs and listen to the sounds my wife and children...

New Rule: If you’re one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog’s...

I love when my cat crushes his forehead into mine like my skull is an empty beer can. But it’s not—there’s still a sip left.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring...

My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood.Dracula was dead. Rex was dying or dead.Breakfast was dying. And I was caring about it all. Meanwhile, that blasted Gunnar did nothing...

Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less...

The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That’s never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But...

When I walk my dog, people always ask if we’re twins.

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

Often at shelters, we hear, ‘I told my child she could get a pet, but she will have to take care of him.’ That is an unrealistic expectation and often results in the pet being...

If human lives be,for their very brevity, sweet,then beast lives are sweeter still…

I had to kill and eat my pet chicken. It was dinner for one, because the night before I killed and ate my grandpa.

Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey’s eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfulness too aware and intense for any cat.Charlie didn’t understand what it was about those two [cats]. Both...

when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

I’ll never go hungry, because I’m a pet owner and a meat eater. I used to own broccoli, but taking it for a walk in the park didn’t work out so well.

It’s just the way things are. Take a moment to consider this statement. Really think about it. We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no...

And he had a dog, a nice dog. He couldn’t be too evil or dangerous if he had such a great dog.

I walked through the house to the back porch and found the screen door covered top to bottom, side to side, with cats meowing for food. . . . They were so thick on the...

I felt like eating steak, but instead I took my cow for a walk. I mean dog.

A dog…is a bond between strangers.

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Somebody needs to pet me, and I guess that somebody is me. My cat is busy sleeping.

If it weren’t for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn’t bother getting out of bed. Then, room service was a little lacking when you lived alone.