Ponderings:

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."  ~John Steinbeck

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."  ~ Jack London

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.'  ~James Thurber

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood, but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even." ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."  ~Michel de Montaigne

"Cats are mysterious kinds of folk - There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." ~Sir Walter Scott

"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they too would purr." ~Martin Delaney