Elayne Boosler Quotes

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

I grew up with both cats and dogs. I love dogs. But I'd want a big dog, and I'd like to have a yard before I get one.

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

If you ever saw a cat and a dog eating out of the same plate, you can bet your ass it was the cat's food.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.

I have to have animals. They really make life worth living, and my world actually revolves around them. They know exactly when it's time to get up, exactly when they're supposed to get their food, and they let you know. Mine are right there in my face, first thing every morning.

We've got eight dogs, a cat, a turtle, kids... yeah we have a lot of dogs. It's a lot of fur, it's a lot of poop... and that's not even counting Robbie. He's the hairiest most feral animal of all.

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.