Jon Katz Quotes

I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time.

The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.

Sometimes, people will just never love dogs.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

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

There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

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

'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.

Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.

I'd definitely have a dog over a child.

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.

I do think we're in a period of time culturally where there is just this extraordinary connection that we have to our pets, and in many ways, they are displacing kids. They're so much simpler than dealing with a kid because of this unconditional love that does not get complicated by adolescence or any other manipulation.

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

Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.

To be labeled pathetic because you enjoy the company of a loving creature who is always down to hang out, sleep, and eat with you is unfair.

From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.

My husband and I adore our animals and are so passionate. They've given us so much love - they've given us so much.

Honestly, I am in love with my dog.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.