968 Quotes About Cats

Thank God for the cats, I thought, when they had the compassion to sleep next to me on the couch, or looked on curious but unfazed as I bawled. They were good companions to have in this strange new world of grief: nonverbal, affectionate, no more baffled by agony than they were by dishwashing.

You do see that I have a gun and all you have is a cat, don't you?

That’s why you couldn’t write my name down; you couldn’t smell it properly and you probably wouldn’t like the taste of it anyway."Mays, Nicholas. Robert the Allotment Cat and Friends . LongWayRound Publishing. Kindle Edition.

No one seemed surprised that Ruby could get Owen and Hercules to pose for her even though cats didn't exactly have a reputation for doing what you wanted them to do when you wanted them to do it - or even doing it at all.

Owen suddenly appeared in front of me. "Why is it you understand the word 'pizza' but you don't understand the words 'stay here'? I asked. He gave me a blank, unblinking look. It's hard to win an argument with a cat.

If word ever got out that her sources all have whiskers, a furry tail and a propensity for licking their own genitalia, she'd probably be front-page news herself.

And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around.

Petkeeping has this been called a ‘misfiring of our parental instincts

Petkeeping has thus been called a ‘misfiring of our parental instincts’.