We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.

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

Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.

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.

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

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.