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Quotes About Cats

Bramblestar mewed
~ Erin Hunter
wondering what she was up to. Beside the honeysuckle wall of the elders' den, in a dip that caught the morning sun, Graystripe was washing comfrey pulp into Millie's fur. Millie's eyes
~ Erin Hunter
According to this thing I saw on the internet, cats and dogs use expressions on us that they don't use on each other. This being on account of the fact that we effectively co-evolved together. So unless sheep are susceptible to a look of long-suffering patience, I'm going to say that the one Ziggy gave me was reserved for humans.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
~ Ben Johnson
If kittens turn into cats why don't puppies turn into paps?
~ Benjamin Harrison
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.
~ Agnes Repplier
I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
~ Camren Bicondova
My wife has horses and we've got dogs and cats, so our family loves animals.
~ Tim Henman
For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.
~ Kathi Appelt
They say you can litter-box train them, but they lie.
~ Gillian Flynn
Singed," he said, assuming that air of phony dignity cats adopt after some particularly inept performance. Something like, "That's what I meant to do all along.
~ Glen Cook
Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.
~ James D. Watson
Raven mumbled something. "Eh? What was that? Speak up! Don't mumble like a caterpillar." "I said, I don't want to scare them." Baba Yaga picked up a blue spray bottle and squirted Raven in the face with water, making Raven blink. "This is how I train my cats not to jump up on my spell table. They learn after a while. Maybe you will, too.
~ Shannon Hale
Mitch, Mitch, Mitch. If I stay, you'll only fall madly in love with me like so many men before you." "It's you we have to worry about," he sighed out. "You've already been trapped in my erotic web of lust. Might as well give it up to the daddy of all cats." Grinning, Sissy stretched out next to Mitch, her arm thrown over his waist. "You keep on dreamin' that dream, kitty." "I will. I own ponies in that dream, too.
~ Shelly Laurenston
You sure are good with cats—for a canine." Dez sat down on the couch opposite Smitty, her son asleep in her arms. "Not as good as you, my sweet Dez." "Well, darlin', you lack the equipment for that.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time.
~ Jerry Climer
Edward admired the beauty of cats, but had learned to think of them as lithe and lethal dander-delivery systems.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Is a prayer a gift, or a petition, or does it matter? The sunflowers blaze, maybe that's their way. Maybe the cats are sound asleep. Maybe not.
~ Mary Oliver
To meet pets' nutrition requirements while also giving humans the cheap, handy, cleanly product they demand, mainstream pet-food manufacturers blend animal fats and meals with soy and wheat grains and add vitamins and minerals. This yields a cheap, nutritious pellet that no one wants to eat. Cats and dogs are not grain-eaters by choice, Moeller is saying. "So our task is to find ways to entice them to eat enough for it to be nutritionally sufficient.
~ Mary Roach
dogs rely more on smell than taste in making choices about what to eat and how vigorously. (Pat Moeller estimates that for dogs, the ratio for how much aroma matters to how much taste matters is 70/30. For cats, the ratio is more like 50/50.)
~ Mary Roach
People blanch to see fish meal or meat meal on a pet-food ingredient panel, but meal--which variously includes organs, heads, skin, and bones--most closely resembles the diet of dogs and cats in the wild. Muscle meat is a grand source of protein, but comparatively little else.
~ Mary Roach
Thanks to this unusual data set, we now know that humans prefer cat food with a tuna or herbal flavor over cat food with the flavor descriptors "rancid," "offaly," "cereal," or "burnt." But humans, as we are about to see, are not cats.
~ Mary Roach
cats are more or less "monoguesic," meaning they stick to one food. Outdoor cats tend to be either mousers or birders, not both. But don't worry, as most of the difference between Tuna Treat and Poultry Platter is in the name and the picture on the label. "They may have more fish meal in one and more poultry meal in another," says Moeller, "but the flavors may or may not change.
~ Mary Roach
The extent to which Americans project their own food qualms and biases onto their pets has lately veered off into the absurd. Some of AFB's clients have begun marketing 100 percent vegetarian kibble for cats. The cat is what's called a true carnivore; its natural diet contains no plants. Moeller tilts his head. A slight lift of the eyebrows. The look says, "Whatever the client wants.
~ Mary Roach