

"Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life."
James Cromwell"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."
James Herriot

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Winston Churchill
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
Immanuel Kant"Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs."
Martha Scott
"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."
Jules Verne
"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."
Jane Goodall"Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children."
Michael Morpurgo

"Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way."
Caroline Knapp
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert A. Heinlein
"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."
Taylor Caldwell"I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar."
Demetri Martin

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
Anne Tyler
"There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around."
Dick Dale"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
Robert Benchley
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
Hippolyte Taine"There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans."
Angus Young"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
Christopher Morley
"Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal."
Eddie Izzard
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
Woodrow Wilson"I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days."
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