Pam Brown Quotes

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.

The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Cats are hard to train, but they can train them.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.

The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.

And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.