Well, there are hermit crabs

American critic Cyril Connolly was born on this day in 1903. He wrote:

"What would one think of dogs' monasteries, hermit cats, vegetarian tigers?"

Get ready for the Dog Days!

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain.

They sometimes make me sick when I eat them, though

Poet Walt Whitman was born on this day in 1819.

"Animals do not make me sick discussing their duty to God," Whitman wrote.