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You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you think they're going to have a dog temperament in that they're going to run to the door when you get home, lick you on the face and cuddle with you all the time, but cats are not that way.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

People's financial situation has changed, and they surrender their cats all the time, because they're downsizing or moving to a property where they are not allowed to have pets.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

There is no such thing as a crazy dog person in New York. Are there people who are completely insane about their dogs? Hordes. But cat people may as well have whiskers and tails themselves. That's because their pets' lack of social need taps straight into our worst fears as the human inhabitants of New York.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

The majority of cats are very gregarious - they love each other so much; they enjoy living together and grooming each other.