Quotes About Pets

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

Definitely, when I have a place and I'm going to be there for any significant amount of time, I want to have dogs. I like a pet you can have some fun with and who does everything you do.

Now and then when some dog set up a howl in the back, one or the other of the cats would appear to smile faintly.

If we were to abuse our children, Social Services would show up at our doors. If we were to abuse our pets, the Humane Society would come to take us away. But there is no Creativity Patrol or Soul Police to intervene if we insist on starving our own souls.

I'm like those placid dogs a family buys when the dog they choose first is too high strung. I'm the pet's pet.

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

I've been trying to train my cat to understand the meaning of the word "no." Which seems to be roughly equivalent to teaching a dog Latin.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.

Dogs deserve proper names." "Cats, too?" "Cats are entirely different. They catch mice.

Non. Chatmousse s'appelait Rhubarbe. Mais Edmund et toi aviez décidé que ce serait bien plus drôle de dire Rhumoustaches, et… — C'est vrai que Rhumoustaches est bien plus drôle. Georgie pinça les lèvres. Elle se retenait manifestement de rire. — Je veux dire, continua Nicholas, qui appelle « Rhubarbe » une créature vivante ?

If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Por ella, en recuerdo de sus cuentos de brujas que tan feliz me hicieron, puse a mi perra bruja. ... Me la regalo un amigo, Miguel Ángel, y me jodió la vida porque lo que tenía que ser para siempre resultó efímero. Buda ya lo dijo: el que tiene tres amores, tendrá tres dolores; el que tiene dos, dos; y el que tiene uno, uno. Mejor no tener ninguno.

My dad says that the dogs and cats in America are luckier than most people in the world.

My dad says the dogs and cats in America are luckier than most people in the world.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Dogs have a master. Cats have servants

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It isn't that I play favorites, it's just that dogs are needier than other pets. Leave a dog alone for very long and it'll start going a little nuts. Cats, on the other hand, try to give you the impression that they didn't even notice you were gone. "Oh, were you out?" they'll say, "I didn't notice." Then they'll raise their tails to show you their little puckered anuses and walk away.

I heard experts claim again and again that owning pets reduces stress and might extend your life. I tried to remember that as I dragged a hose out of the basement to fill the ducks' plastic swimming pool in January weather so cold, the snow complained as I stepped on it.

cat person" was pretty specific, suggesting a tame middle-aged eccentric who substituted interaction with pets for a healthy social relationship with other people. I resented that whole notion, because it described me perfectly.

An old cat is a good friend to talk to.