Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

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

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

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 hunters on earth!

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

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

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Dogs are my favorite people.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

The dog is the god of frolic.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.