Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.
I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.
It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Peeves do not make very good pets.
Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.
People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.