"No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?" - Jeffrey KlugerTweet
"I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me it felt disloyal." - Robert CraisTweet
"I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone." - Steven WrightTweet
"I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet." - Paul RuddTweet
"People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." - August StrindbergTweet
"Dogs are my favorite people." - Richard Dean AndersonTweet
"We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes." - Rachael RayTweet
"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it." - Maggie StiefvaterTweet
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." - Ann LandersTweet
"I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with." - Juan GrisTweet