AtomicQuote

Jon Katz Quote

Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.

Jon Katz

Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.

Tags: dog, gift, see

Related Quotes

Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian. I glanced up at Derek. It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.

Kelley Armstrong

Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian. I glanced up at Derek. It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.

Tags: derek, dog, pomeranian

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fak...

Michael Bassey Johnson

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fak...

Tags: attraction, bad, bad people, bait, cheat, cheaters, cheating, corrosive, devil, devilish

The love that I believe in is something that goes beyond the physical aspects of this world. The love that I believe is one that extends its energy and power through the beautiful souls that I encount...

Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache

The love that I believe in is something that goes beyond the physical aspects of this world. The love that I believe is one that extends its energy and power through the beautiful souls that I encount...

Tags: beautiful, believe, beyond, branch, branches, care, cat, children, crafting, deep

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

Tags: attention, banal, boring, boring book, carnal, cruel, cruelty, disease, dog, ego

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours.

Karen Davison

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours.

Tags: dog, dog lovers, dogs, owners, tail

A dog's love is only second to that of a mother's.

Radhika Mundra

A dog's love is only second to that of a mother's.

Tags: dog, dog love, dog lovers, dogs, dogs and humans, dogs loyalty, dogs speak, inspirational, love, mother

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

Ryan Lilly

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

Tags: animals, animals love, butt, canine, dog, dogs, fetch, fetching, funny, pet

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.

Tags: bark, barking, brave, conquer, conqueror, criticism, critics, dog, dreamer quotations, dreamer

Shigure Sohma: So anyway I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That is if it isn't a problem.Hatori Sohma: No problem. I'll stop by the house this evening. Shi...

Natsuki Takaya

Shigure Sohma: So anyway I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That is if it isn't a problem.Hatori Sohma: No problem. I'll stop by the house this evening. Shi...

Tags: crush, dog, dragon, fruits basket, funny, hatori, lol, shigure, tohru

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

Richard Belzer

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

Tags: back, country, cynical, cynical humor, dog, funny, humor, job, music, mystery
About Jon Katz

Jon Katz (born August 8, 1947) is an American journalist, author, and photographer. He was a contributor to the online magazine HotWired, the technology website Slashdot, and the online news magazine Slate. In his early career as an author he wrote a series of crime novels and books on geek subculture. More recent works focus on the relationship between humans and animals.