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

Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses!

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.

Being patted is what it is all about.

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.

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