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[ May/June 2001 ]

Cats and Dogs


Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul: chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

-- Anne Tyler


I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl.

-- Penny Ward Moser


I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

-- Rita Rudner


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


When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

-- Edward Abbey


Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

--Ann Landers


No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

-- Fran Lebowitz


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


Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

-- Robert A. Heinlein


In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.

-- Dereke Bruce


Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.

-- Unknown