If human lives be,
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still...

Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.

He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble.

Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

They weren't feral cats; they were his pets.