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.

Daisy didn’t just change our lives, she changed our destiny.

You have them, you name them. They’re helpless, and you teach, or train, them. Feed them, water them, whatever. And as they grow up, you just hope that they grow up well and don’t spend...

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest...

The only sad part for me about getting a cat from the pound is that I can only choose one. If I could, I’d take home all of them. Actually, my view is why take...

This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or...

Take care of your dog because a dead dog is NOT a fun companion!

Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you’re light in the head. But I reckon it’s all right to talk to a dog...

Wasn’t allowed to have pets. I killed my pet cockroach when it crawled into my ear.

I said hello to the poodle.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”Aristotle

My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don’t get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk.

Jason had joked that dust bunnies under the bed were pets he didn’t mind keeping: they never whined for food and didn’t require a litter box. They also didn’t wake you up at night by...

From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea pig who would go places.

They will snatch house pets if owners let them loose or feed them outdoors. We just need to be aware that they’re here. Never feed a coyote.

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing...

Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven.

A cat’s head rubbing your cheeks can give you a wonderful feeling, that of being loved and accepted.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Your deceit smells like a fake mustache. Nobody stole my facial hair. I shaved this morning and donated half of it to the Humane Society. The other half I kept for sentimental petting reasons.

Maybe this is kind of cliche, but animals, well, dogs, are what I do for a living. One reason I like spending time with them so much is they seem to think people are really...

Pearl was hurring around my apartment, sniffing everything, including Rich Beaumont and Patty Giacomin, which neither of them like much.”Can you get Pearl to settle down?” Paul asked.”I could speak to her, but she’d continue...

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.