“The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.”
Pets love you in a way that no human being quite manages — without conditions, without judgment, and with an enthusiasm that does not dim over time. These quotes celebrate the animals who make our lives warmer, funnier, and less lonely.
“What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.”
“The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.”
“I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!”
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”
“Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.”
“I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.”
“I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.”
“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
“There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.”
“If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.”
“When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.”
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
“In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.”
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
“A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.”
“I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.”