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[ September/October 2002 ]

Cats and Dogs

by Various

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