We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats..

Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive..

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time..

Being patted is what it is all about..

I always thought that my canine family tended to view me as the funny-looking two-legged dog who runs the can opener..

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs..

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a ….

In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a ca….

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs..

Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever ….

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks..

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible..

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over..

Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all ….

A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative….

We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought….

It doesn't matter where you are in your own personal development, nor has it mattered where you have been culturally; dogs simply don't pass judgment….

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around..

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

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them..

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life..