Pet Therapy Quotes

I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

I'm a dog lover - I've had them since I was younger.

Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.

The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)

If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.

My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control.

So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ultimate innocence and purity. That's why it's hard to see a dog in its dogness. That's why, when some harm comes to a dog, it's much harder for an audience to deal with that, more so than dealing with harm that comes to a child or anything human.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

It might be better - more comfortable - to have a dog and two cats. All the love is focused on the cats and the dog. Am I right or wrong here? Have you seen it? At the end of this marriage, comes old age and loneliness.

It's amazing how a simple brief phone call can pick up the spirits of the most dejected hamster, the most stressed goldfish and the most neurotic cat.

I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.

Kittens will make your sad go away

You can put a dog in a scene and everyone's going to be better, I guarantee it. And if they're not better, just shoot the dog.

I treat my cat like she's my therapist or something, because I talk to her all the time, and as she's gotten older, she talks back. It's pretty funny.

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.

She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.

if you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.