Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Mens bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind. – Malcolm De Chazal

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal. – Sir Winston Churchill

There is a drop of blood in the snow before me…. The coyote… is in estrus…. spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring. – Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild