David Seltzer Quotes

Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human's eyes.

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

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

I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

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

I'm a cat whisperer. When I go to people's houses, their cats always like me better than the owners.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

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

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.

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

My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

If you have time to be with a dog, and the dog is smart, you come to understand the dog, and the dog understands you. They're not hard to train. But they have to be smart, and you have to spend time with them. It's like coaching. I was a better coach when I had smart players.

I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

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 higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Animals make us Human.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.