Betty White Quotes

Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

So often animals come into shelters where their owners have passed away. And they've been perfect pets for most of their lives. So there's an adult animal sitting in a cage that's completely trained, sleeps through the night, is past that puppy stage.

I think pets are a good thing, especially if you get them out of a shelter.

I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet.

I'm an animal lover.

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.

And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.

We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad.

I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

I didn't have any pets growing up.

We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

I was a dog man. I love dogs. I had a cat in my later years and fell in love with this little cat, but every kid should have a dog. There's no doubt about it. We've had a lot of fun with them.

Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.

Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.

I'm not the best dog owner.

I just wish that more people would be welcoming to dogs and cats so they didn't have so many that got killed and had to be thrown in a landfill.

Millions of cats are in shelters across the country waiting for a loving parent or family to bring them home.

Every time someone buys a cat or a dog from a breeder or a pet shop, a cat on the streets or in an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a good home.