A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. – Jean Burden
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. – Jean Burden

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. – Jean Burden
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. – Jean Burden
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. – Pierre Loti