Temple Grandin Quotes

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

If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.

Cats will always lie soft.

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

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

I think we all connect with dogs the most because they're pack animals. I know that cats are a little bit too aloof for me, although I wouldn't totally object to bringing one into our pack if I could find the right match that would get along with my dogs.

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

Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like.

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

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

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

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

I just don't get cats. To me, they're a waste of fur.

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

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

I get asked a lot why cats mess outside the litter box. The simplest thing is if you have more than one cat and you have two litter boxes, don't put them right next to each other.

Some cats don't like different types of kitty litter. So might try different types of kitty litter sometimes that works. You know, they don't like one type that sticks to the paws and they don't like it.

We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

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

Dogs own space and cats own time.

A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking.