'Only when the mind is able to fly do exciting ideas develop. Based on this idea, Jongerius created the Office Pets that connect the rational world of offices and the narrative world of fairy tales.'
'This office creature emphasizes the role of the imagination rather than the function of the objects. (...)
The Office Pets not only provide office staff a light-hearted escape from their tightly organised office life, but also represent a new stage in design. Jongerius as it were pushes a slowly developed phenomenon beyond its ‘natural’ boundaries. In the last half century the word ‘functionality’ has practically lost its original instrumental meaning. Contemporary design is concerned with image, context, meanings and messages rather than immediate utility and use. The Office Pets also feed our minds and our imagination, we feel a need to cherish them as if they were living beings. (…)
The animals, which recall Jongerius’ other designs, seem to have just escaped from a pretty parable into the world of the open-plan office to make a powerful appeal to the imagination - a pre-eminent human need.'

Jongerius says: "We express who we are by the furniture, the appliances and the accessories with which we surround ourselves day by day. There is hardly any point in making a fundamental distinction between these different things. All of them, in their own way, are necessary, functional".