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

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.

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.