Roger Caras Quotes About Cats

• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Sorry

• Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Feel Good, Way

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

• Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

  Roger Caras

  Beautiful, Cat, Laughing

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

• Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.

  Roger Caras

  Stars, Nice, Believe

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

• We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.

  Roger Caras

  Heart, Cat, Blood

• Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Long, Episodes

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

• Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Underestimate, Humans

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Vision, Noses

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

• A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, People, Contentment

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

• In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Loss, Egypt

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