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.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

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.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

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 on you the way all of the rest of life and all your other companions seem to.

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