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.

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.

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

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

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

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.