Top 222 Pet Quotes

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I saw myself as a teacher’s pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher’s pet, but that didn’t mean that I was trying to pull one over.

I already have a pet project called Project Shakti and it aims on educating women on menstruation cycle.

I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children’s author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can’t foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He’s not just a cat, he’s my friend.

I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don’t have a dog, I can just pet my bag!

My campaign is about getting pets to be more active, and exercise with your animal is a great way for people to exercise. When you’re out with your pet, it becomes fun. You don’t think of it as a chore. For me, taking my dog out for a walk is very relaxing.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.

Packing is my pet hate.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals ‘love’ them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

I’d say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they’re meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher’s pet, know-it-all type.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Getting onto ‘Jeopardy!’ was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything. I would draw these pictures. I had hundreds of these pictures in a box.

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants – it’s like giving someone a pet. I’m giving you responsibility, I’m giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I’m giving you sadness and guilt.

It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing ‘Fair Use’ and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.

Adopting a pet is like taking the responsibility of a baby.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

I used to have a pet crawfish, so my friend made a mold of its claws and bronzed a key chain for me out of it.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: ‘Hello, my name is Fifi and I’m a labrador and I think you’re great. Paw paw!’

Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.

A true fad has little utility beyond its entertainment value. Think of the Mood Ring, the Pet Rock, the Slinky, Silly Putty.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don’t buy love for nothing.

I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

There are things that I invented – the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he’s not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff – this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish – named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

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.

My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey’s dog Moyo.

We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a loving cat or dog from an animal shelter instead of buying animals from breeders or pet shops.

It’s true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

I can’t imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

Pet me, touch me, love me, that’s what I get when I perform. That’s when I’m really getting what I want.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

Environmentalists hate sprawl – except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

People always joke that ‘dog’ spells ‘god’ backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet’s life.

People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album ‘Rumble Doll,’ yes. It’s always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.

That’s one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don’t have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and producers.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don’t want to do that. I’ve got to be different.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

It might seem strange to feast on Guinea pig, but Ecuadorians love to eat cuy. Personally, I think it’s a phenomenal alternative to pork or chicken. High in protein, low in fat, cheap and easy to raise. Oh, and cuy tastes great, much like roast pig. You might call it a pet, but I prefer to call it dinner.

Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?

I had a PET scan, and it was cleared. Not one cell of cancer after three rounds of chemo. But I still had seven more just for safety, which was stupid. I should have just worked on therapy.

I have never been a pet lover or really craved the idea of having dogs.

There is nothing wrong with professional pet owners and private breeders of exotic animals. And I would be the first to fight to take away an animal from an irresponsible owner.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Like most people, I have several pet subjects – that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don’t get me started on happiness, or habits, or children’s literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it.

I noticed that on the Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ record they could get away with racy lyrics like that because of how they looked and the melodic way they sang the suggestive stuff. They slid it by the censors.

My mom didn’t believe in putting chemicals in hair. But when I got to college, we didn’t have A/C in our dorms freshman year. So after several days of waking up looking like a Chia Pet, I was like ‘OK, I’m gonna get a perm.’ And then my hair revolted and fell out. I was over that quick, fast and in a hurry.

My pet peeves are people touching me a lot. Random dudes grabbing me and slapping me across the back. They’re not doing it on purpose, but it’s like they forget I’m a person. But you can’t do anything about it. What are you going to do?

One of my obsession is animals. I’m into dog rescues. It drives me crazy when people go to pet stores and buy dogs. There are so many dogs that need a good home. And this sounds crazy, but I really believe they know what is happening and are appreciative, and I just think they make for the best pets.

For me, it’s always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.

Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!

There is nothing in a name. My husband, Santhosh Menon, called me Navya at first, which I did not like as it was my screen name. He knew me as Navya and found calling me Dhanya strange, so he came up with a pet name.

As a child, the most important people in my life were my pet rabbit and Mary, mother of Jesus.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

I love pet animals, but I don’t have any.

Years ago, I came out with a Christmas album called ‘Tinsel Time’. It was just a pet project for me, but it ended up going to number one on Amazon!

I’m not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I’m not insane.

I don’t have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, ‘I want to improve my parenting – let’s see how the chimps do it!’

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Every time someone buys a cat or a dog from a breeder or a pet shop, a cat on the streets or in an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a good home.

Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.

If cats were double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal.

Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it’s just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it’s one of my pet hates.

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

I do have the most adorable little Chihuahua mix. I adopted him about 3 1/2 years ago from Much Love pet adoption, and he has been the love of my life ever since. His name is Beau, or as my sister and I like to call him ‘ mushy mush’ because he truly is just a pile of loving mush that just melts in your arms.

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We’re haunted by our particular demons.

Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that’s what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We’re wrong.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher’s pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Disrespect is my biggest pet peeve.

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren’t seeing the soul in there.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don’t betray each other.

I love pigs. I think they’re very cute. I really want a pet pig, but those micro pigs, they don’t stay micro.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it’s leaving us more and more isolated.

I’ve teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who’ve found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets’ lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160… but to pick one: muffins. They’re imposters. They think they’re breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.

Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

Pet Sematary’ is one of my favorite books of Stephen King and I have a deep love relationship with it.

If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.

We used to have quirky weird bands that made dance music like the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode and I think people have still got an appetite for that type of music-melody and darkness.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

There’s kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don’t pet her for 10 minutes she’ll bother you for six hours.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.

What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain’t going to happen. That’s the type of person that I am. I’m that lion.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he’s gone.

I have a pet goat.

I have a Lab, it’s fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it’s fun.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

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.

I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I’ll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn’t be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you’re a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can’t drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it’s like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they’re in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

Cats are very independent animals. They’re very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They’re familiar. They’re obedient. You call a cat, you go, ‘Cat, come here.’ He doesn’t come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They’re very free animals, and I like that.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don’t know – I can’t be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don’t need any spoiling or looking after.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

I started out in 1989 doing open mic nights. The first 10 years, I was literally all about I’m going to be a star. I want leather pants, I want a kangaroo, I want to be on ‘MTV Cribs,’ I want to go to the mall with a pet monkey and I want everyone to go, ‘Wow, that guy’s huge, he’s successful.’

I really want a pet, and I really love animals.

I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with – there’s nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.

That’s not the way the government works. You can’t just take $1 billion from this program, $1 billion from over here, and then put it toward your pet project.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

We need to bring awareness to how great of a pet cats are.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

This is always one of my big pet peeves is that 65% of NBA players, three years out of the NBA, are broke. I mean, so, maybe maturing a little more on the front end and getting an education might serve you well down the road.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you’re making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet’s diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop.

I believe giving pets ‘people food,’ while tempting, is generally frowned upon. As a pet owner you want to prioritize your animal’s health over the entertainment value in watching your little guy bat around a small piece of chicken.

I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn’t conquer it.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

People buy a cat and think, ‘Oh that’s a beautiful collar. I’ll put that on,’ but that doesn’t make them a responsible pet owner.

I have a pet peeve about bands that don’t play their hits. I think it’s kind of selfish.

I hate when people don’t keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

One of my pet hates is people re-Tweeting praise, I loathe it more than anything else in the world.

One of my pet peeves in athleisure today is clothes that make a woman feel square and one-dimensional.

I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales – where some of my ancestors are from – and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it’s one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.

I’ve been lucky. I’ve made films that I really like. It’s been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I’ve gone after lots of things that I didn’t get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you’re lucky if you get anything.

Definitely, when I have a place and I’m going to be there for any significant amount of time, I want to have dogs. I like a pet you can have some fun with and who does everything you do.

If your Facebook page has turned into a shrine to your relationship, pet, or newborn, no one will say anything, but all who are subjected to your news feed are totally annoyed. Super fans who turn their profiles into mausoleums dedicated to their teams are equally insufferable and one hundred times more pathetic.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs… I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

We are deeply sorry for the loss of anything – from your luggage to, of course, a loved pet.

I’ve never written a ‘Revolver’ or a ‘Pet Sounds.’

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I’m home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

All I want in life is to pet my dog and cat. After that, all I want to do is post photos of them. Mostly because they’re the cutest things ever, but also because I don’t have to worry about how ugly I look in the photo.

Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can’t find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn’t be tolerated.

I thought that I was a crazy pet owner, but now I realize I’m not so bad.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

When it comes to the great either/or of pet ownership, I am definitely a cat person.

My biggest pet peeve is when people don’t admit what they’ve done.

I have a lot of trouble understanding how people see me as a celebrity. I work 14 hours a day, and then I just want to talk to my family, see the people I love, pet my dog, and go to bed. I’m not looking to be best friends with or emulate a celebrity.

I’d cut school and go over to the Lori-Ann Donut Shop and eat doughnuts. I got a job at the pet store near Lechmere, unloading fish tanks. They gave me $10 for unloading a full long-bed truckload. I never broke a fish tank. When I asked for a raise, I got fired.

There’s just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

I think there’s something great and generic about goldfish. They’re everybody’s first pet.

When a guy tells me I’m cute, it’s not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you’re not spending enough time thinking about what you’re designing.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it’s primarily about the songs, it’s about song writing.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject – so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.

I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal’s point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.

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.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy’s wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don’t understand. Men’s feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they’re on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy’s hoof? I don’t get it. I don’t understand it.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

I could never date a guy with a pet snake.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher’s pet.

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

If the Beastie Boys and the Beach Boys and Pet Shop Boys can stay boys, so can we.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

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?

I don’t mind being called Maddy at all, but I mind the closeness that you assume you get by calling me by my pet name. So merely by calling me Maddy, I don’t give you the authority to come and put your hand around my shoulder.

Cats don’t like change without their consent.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don’t go buy one. Please. That’s a sin. Let’s get these puppy mills out of business.

My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

Having a pet only brings more love into a home and it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever experienced.

And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.

Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher’s pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, ‘For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.’

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I guess you could say I’m a closeted animal person, because a lot of my life I did it in secrecy. I was always fascinated with exotic animals, particularly reptiles, from the age of 6 when I got a pet tortoise.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I’m always travelling, so it’s perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn’t stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

I don’t read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I’m like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.

My first pet at home in Edinburgh was a dog my dad had called Glen. He was a small sheepdog and went with my dad every day to work as manager of a cooking centre, which made the children’s lunches for schools.

My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I’ve never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I’ll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

I have a chip on my shoulder I pet every morning, a constant feeling like I have something to prove. Hearing that the canon can’t be diversified, there’s no room for more brown faces – that fueled my fire.

I’m very into Taylor Swift. From her music to her wardrobe, she is absolutely killing it. Also, she has adorable cats that I would love to pet.

I am a pet lover, especially dogs, and have been doing social work even before the lockdown began.

Most women have jobs that require them to leave the house. A cat is actually a perfect pet. You get the love and companionship of a creature covered in fur, and you don’t have to take it for a walk, and it can feed itself. Less maintenance. Surely any man can appreciate the practicality of this choice.