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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me...... they are my children.
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.
I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.
The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.
We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.
That's one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don't have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and producers.
I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo.
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.
My biggest pet peeve is when a girl says, "I'm not into drama." Why are you even mentioning it?! That's dramatic in itself!
I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.
A true fad has little utility beyond its entertainment value. Think of the Mood Ring, the Pet Rock, the Slinky, Silly Putty.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets.
Having a pet spayed or neutered actually extends its lifespan by a few years and reduces any aggressive traits or tendencies.
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.
Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong.
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Speed is vital. You got to strike fast. Fads have short lives, and you got to get what you can - like the case of the Pet Rock.
I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.
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.
I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.
People buy a cat and think, 'Oh that's a beautiful collar. I'll put that on,' but that doesn't make them a responsible pet owner.
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.
If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.
And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.
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.