Pet Culture Quotes

Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

Another thing I take issue with are people who take their dogs on "play dates," or even worse, people who choose to dress their dogs up in outfits better suited for homosexuals participating in a gay pride parade. Dog costumes are right up there with something else I find particularly offensive: sweater vests.

Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.

My husband and I are trying to make cats cool and it's working.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

There are more dog owners in America than there are conservatives.

What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about my rabbit a lot.

I consider myself the queen of pugs of New York City. I'm really into my dogs. Massive pugs, massive needlepoint, massive color!

It's so French to be a cat person.

My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.

I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

I don't appreciate people who celebrate their dog's birthdays with "dog parties," and then invite their friends who don't even have dogs. I understand why people like dogs, and I think they definitely bring more to the table than cats or those godforsaken ferrets, but I don't think it's healthy for people to treat their dogs like they are real people.

If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.