Quotes About Pets

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

The only weights I lift are my dogs.

Cats are so easy. I would definitely welcome more cats into the Stern household.

I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia.

When I was young, I preferred dogs, but when I moved into a flat when I was 18, it wasn't practical to have a dog. So I got a couple of kittens, and that was it.

The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

Do you notice that all presidents have a dog? There is always a First Dog. Or two or three. You have to have a dog to be president, I guess.

It's the most prestigious dog show in the country. We love dogs, and we're having a blast out here.

I'm definitely an animal lover.

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

I think I was trying to choose a name for him, and my flatmate was like, 'Oh, you should call him Diana.' I was like, 'Yeah. Very funny.' I think someone then said 'Diana Spencer,' and I'd always wanted to call my dog quite like an old person name, like Janet or something like that. 'Spencer' weirdly fit that bill.

When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

How do you not love a dog with a toilet seat halo around its head?

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

The irresistible attraction of pets is that their love can be earned

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

If it is gratitude you want, get a dog.

The dichotomy between innate and learned fear is actually a bit fuzzy.19 Everyone knows that humans are innately afraid of snakes and spiders. But some people keep them as pets, give them cute names.fn13 Instead of inevitable fear, we show "prepared learning"—learning to be afraid of snakes and spiders more readily than of pandas or beagles.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.