Animal Companions Quotes

When I'm in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.

Cats are ideal for politicians. I had two when I arrived at Westminster, Sooty and Sweep, who had come with a flat I had bought six years earlier in Fulham from someone who was about to go abroad. There was a better offer ahead of me but she took mine because I would take the cats.

I had a dream about riding a black cat, and then the next day I was at this antique mart, and I found this little devil riding a black cat - an Austrian bronze, tiny little thing. It was super tiny. And it was kind of like, "Oh my God, my dream came true." Except it was a devil, of course. Not me.

Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

A lot of times, my best friend was my dog.

You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.

In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

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

Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

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.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.

If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney addict.

For me, relaxing is going on a 10-mile hike. When I have time off, I like to be at home and spend time with my animals, and things like that.I'm not the girl that goes out for facials, and manicures and pedicures, all the time. I wish I did. It would be better for me, but I get annoyed.

Oh, dear me, no. Then I should be known as that vampire with all the cats.

Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.

Animals are such agreeable friends.