Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
Copy Quote View & ShareA dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.
Copy Quote View & ShareAnimals 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareBefore 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareNothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere'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.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
Copy Quote View & ShareSome dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
Copy Quote View & ShareI have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareI live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
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