You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people…

“Cats and humans have been partners for over ten thousand years. And what you realize when you've lived with a cat for a long…

— Genki Kawamura

“Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it’s hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking…

— Elly Griffiths

“She said that cats were more attached to places than to people. And that was why cats are often found in abandoned houses.”

— Kyung-sook Shin

Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives.

— Anonymous

“Some people have cats. I have a lion.”

— Julia Vee

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

— Mason Cooley

Indeed, there has never been any sort of organised movement of people who take their cats into the outdoors. Of course, the navy often…

— Michelle Dean

Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals…

— Gary L. Francione

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes,…

— S. Parkes Cadman

We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems…

— Wayne Pacelle

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there…

— Jared Diamond

So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general…

— Charles Darwin

Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden…

— Caroline Paul

If someone were watching from a distant planet, our beliefs might look like this: domestic animals should be more wild; wild animals should be…

— Steven Rinella