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

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.

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

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.

Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.