Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
— Francis of Assisi
Unforgettable best pet quotes that are about losing a pet

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
I never married because there was no need.
I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
Every woman should have four pets in her life.
A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
My most treasured possessions are not things;
they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act.
.. about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it.
.. Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
All his life he tried to be a good person.
Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it;
to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name.
And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.