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

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Being patted is what it is all about.

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

In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.

Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses!