Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger.

Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.