Independent Animals Quotes

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

No animal admires another animal.

And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.

Cats are so wonderful because they're furry, purry and totally independent.

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

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

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

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat in the same way.

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.

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.