dogs have masters; cats have staff

See also: dogs have masters, cats have staff

English

Proverb

dogs have masters; cats have staff

  1. Alternative form of dogs have masters, cats have staff.
    • 1997 May 5, Patty Winter, quoting Krysta Sutterfield, “Solo Traveling in the East Kingdom”, in rec.org.sca‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 7 December 2024:
      > ~Krysta Sutterfield / Lady Shandra
      > Chaos Coordinator
      > Dogs have masters; cats have staff.
    • 2002 December 7, Margaret Gunning, “Three new books explore the feline mystique”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., →ISSN, page H7, columns 5–6:
      According to [Jeffrey Moussaieff] Masson, cats are innately spiritual (“There does seem to be a Zen of cats”), their psychological lives are complicated, and we humans had better be aware of the immutable fact that “dogs have masters; cats have staff.”
    • 2009, “2010 Author Biographies”, in Ardis Stenbakken, editor, Sanctuary: Finding Sanctuary for the Soul in the Presence of God (The Women’s Devotional Series; 18), Hagerstown, Md.: Review and Herald® Publishing Association, →ISBN, page 392:
      She lives in Brookeville, Maryland, with her husband and two cats who live by the adage “Dogs have masters; cats have staff!”
    • 2009, Kristine Lowder, “Eve”, in How I Got to Be 50 and Other Atrocities: A Baby Boomer Reflects on the Boom and Other Splashes of Everyday Life, Warrens, Wis.: Living Stones Fellowship International, →ISBN, section “Faith”, page 139:
      If I could divide the world into two nice, neat camps, it’d look like this: Dog People and Other. Some sage put it this way: “Dogs have masters; cats have staff.” That sums it up pretty well, huh?
    • 2013, Mieshelle Nagelschneider, “Life on the Wild Side—Where Even the Tamest Cats Live”, in The Cat Whisperer: Why Cats Do What They Do—and How to Get Them to Do What You Want, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 53:
      As the joke goes, a dog looks at all the things we provide for it and thinks, You must be God. A cat looks at all the things we provide for it and thinks, I must be God. Here’s another favorite: “Dogs have masters; cats have staff.”
    • 2014, Allan Ament, “Negotiating the Rapids”, in Learning to Float: Memoir of a Caregiver-Husband, Seattle, Wash.: Booktrope Editions, →ISBN, pages 60–61:
      Like Deloris’s conversations, the writings often incorporated what she had heard on television. […] Dogs have masters; cats have staff.
    • 2015, Elke Becker, translated by Terry Laster, chapter 5, in Over the Fench, Seattle, Wash.: AmazonCrossing, →ISBN, page 48:
      She’d lost all sympathy for the dog. Eva was more of a cat person anyway. She admired their character. Dogs have masters; cats have staff. Felix demonstrated this time and time again.
    • 2016 December 10, Doug Showalter, “Doggone it: Thinking of expanding our family”, in The Republic, Columbus, Ind., →ISSN, page B4, columns 1–2:
      We have two cats we’re crazy about, but it would be nice to once again have a pet that seems to actually be happy that we are alive. […] As the saying goes, dogs have masters; cats have staff.
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