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,...

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They’re furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick — in love with themselves. When’s the last...

It’s not fun to pet cats when you’ve already poured gravy on them, and you’re holding silverware.

They do make really good pets just because they’re affectionate and playful and they honestly don’t take a lot of care.

I had no idea what humans were capable of. I heard they were crafty, but how are they able to do such things?You mean harness light and water? Speedy asked. Change the weather?Yes.It’s only the...

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

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.