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Animal-related Quotations:

Writers like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like writers for the same reason.
-- Robertson Davies 

"Pets are fun. My cat likes to play Hide-And-Go-Puke." 

Definition of an elephant: a mouse built to government specifications.

Don't stop to stomp on ants, when the elephants are stampeding.

A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead. 

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Never put all your eggs in your pocket. 

"My life is like a beaver's, just one dam thing after another."

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
-- Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

"If you're really a police dog, where's your badge??"

Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives? 

To a cat, "NO!" means "Not while I'm looking"
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Small talk between cats: "Shred any good books lately?"

"Tell him he is a good cat. And a pretty cat." -- Data 

"I am Cat of Borg. Your laps will be assimilated." 

We had to give up the kids, the cat was allergic.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. -- Arnold Joseph Toynbee 

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama. -- Mark Twain

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. -- Leonardo da Vinci 

The difference between a dog and a cat is this: If you give a dog some food, a warm place to sleep, and some attention, the dog thinks, "Wow, this guy must be a god!!" If you give a cat some food, some catnip toys, and pet it, the cat thinks, "Wow, I must be a god!!" 

Animals make such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
-- George Elliot (_Scenes of Clerical Life_)

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious. -- Heinrich Heine

Cats are not dogs! -- P.G. Wodehouse

"We are raccoon of Borg. Putting rocks on the trash cans is futile."

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies. -- Agnes Repplier, American Writer (1855-1950) 

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perserverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. -- Robert Benchley

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
-- August Strindberg

 The animals of the planet are in desperate peril....Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. -- Alice Walker

 Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression. -- Gertrude Stein

 Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. -- Voltaire

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. - Fran Lebowitz

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you. -- Missy Dizick and Mary Bly

Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: Be-ooootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jeweled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat. -- Doris Lessing

 Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
-- Agnes Repplier

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. -- Samuel Butler

My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her. -- Colette

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. -- Nora Ephron

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. -- Mark Twain

Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal.
-- Winston Churchill

I think, therefore I am. -- Descartes
I purr, therefore you pet me. -- Scotty, a.k.a. Sir Purrs-a-lot

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
-- Samuel Butler

The dog seems to be innately capable of understanding the small, magical, little importance of life that man has either overlooked or simply not taken the time to see.
-- James Thurber 

When the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
-- William Beebe

                                                                           The Rainbow Bridge  

There is a bridge connecting Heaven and Earth. It is called the Rainbow Bridge, because of its many colors. Just this side of the Rainbow Bridge, there is a land of meadows, hills, and valleys with lush green grass. When a beloved pet dies, the pet goes to this place. There is always food and water, and the warm Spring weather. Those old and frail animals are young again. Those who have been maimed are made whole again. They play all day with each other.

But there is only one thing missing. They are not with their special person who loved them on Earth. So, each day they run and play until the day comes when one suddenly stops playing and looks up. The nose twitches, the ears are up, the eyes are staring, and this one suddenly runs from the group. You have been seen, and when you and your special friend meet, you take him or her in your arms and embrace. Your face is kissed again and again and again and you look once more into the eyes of your trusting pet.

Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together, never again to be separated. 
                       

-- Anonymous Author

Last revised December 16, 2003