Quotes About Pets

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.

The tamed squirrels] made jolly companions but became very annoyed with her if she read too long; one would climb onto her shoulder, down her arm and sit on the page of her book 'with bushy tail outspread'.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

You know I believe that all children should have pets if it can possibly be managed, she wrote. I feel it is beneficial to give even the littlest children responsibility for something more helpless and in need of care than themselves. In this way selfishness is avoided, generosity is nurtured, and the heart's affections are exercised until they can bend and stretch to encompass all the world's creatures.

I like pets," he said gallantly. "For example, Nutsawoo.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

He loved you as much as you loved him, and maybe he didn't want you to see him die. You see, cats know. They understand when their time is up. He went outside because he was going to die, and he knew it.

It was then I realised the one thing worse than having a dog hate you is having a dog love you.

I came across Piper deep in conversation with Jet one afternoon and when I asked her what they were talking about she shrugged and said Dog Things.