Cat Independence Quotes

A lot of cats are not that social.

I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat's personality is never bet on a human's. He demands acceptance on his own terms.

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

Cats, unlike dogs, are independent creatures. They do not need walking and are content to be alone all day, providing they are fed.

Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

A cat is nobody's fool.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him