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, The Accidental Tourist
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. -Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. -Martin Buber
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. -Colette
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. -Henry David Thoreau
The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. -Hebrew Proverb
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. -Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. -Isaac Asimov
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. -Henry David Thoreau
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. -Nora Ephron
