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Paws in Print

Spring 2001

Memorial Donations

One of the ways to help BARL in its work for the animals is to make in memory and in honor donations to the League.

Many people make a donation in memory of a loved one who has died. BARL sends a personally written card to the person designated, as well as a receipt to the donor.

When someone loses a beloved pet, a donation to BARL is another way of letting that person know you understand their grief and sympathize in their loss. Again, BARL will send an acknowledgement card and receipt.

Recently someone gave a donation in honor of a friend’s pet to the League. His owners were delighted when he received his card informing him of the gift in his honor.

In honor gifts are appropriate in many situations. Know someone who has everything who has a birthday coming up? Why not make a donation to BARL in their name. It’s something any animal lover can appreciate, and any size is appropriate.

Donations to the League should be mailed to P.O. Box 909, Brookhaven MS 39602. Please remember to include the name of the person in whose memory or honor the gift is made, to whom the acknowledgement card is to be sent, their address, and your address for the receipt.

Geri Jinks

About Cats

"I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic."

"One cat just leads to another." - Ernest Hemingway

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." - Anonymous

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez

"In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats." - English proverb

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." - Ellen Perry Berkeley

"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are devine."

"Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly

"Teaching 4th Graders is like herding cats." - Marian Wise

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." - Anonymous

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

"Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Colette

"No heaven will not ever Heaven be;

Unless my cats are there to welcome me." - Anonymous

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." - Missy Dizick

"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." - Colonial American proverb

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch

"Cats aren’t clean, they’re just covered with cat spit." - John S. Nichols

"Jerry dear said it was him or the cat.... I miss him sometimes."

About Dogs

"In dog years, I’m dead." - Unknown

"Dogs feel very strongly that they shoul dalways go with you in the care in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing in your right ear." - Dave Berry

"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." - Ben Williams

"Money will buy you a pretty dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail." - Unknown

"Ever consider what dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul--chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!" - Ann Tyler

"Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant." - Unknown

"Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." - Ann Landers

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane." - Smiley Blanton

"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives." - Rita Rudner