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.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

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

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

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

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

We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!