Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

You can’t be sad when Daisy is around, she won’t let you.

Why do I prefer cats to dogs? I have never stepped in cat shit.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”Aristotle

If my life was a song it would be ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

Dogs share physiological characteristics with humans. A lot of diseases that occur in dogs can be directly transferred to humans.

Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move…the combination “lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance.” In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as...

Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful....

I heard a choking sound behind me. When I looked back, Cannoli was hanging from the backpack harness with her hind legs circling frantically in the air. She looked like she was riding a bike...

I’m not a dog-owner, to my dogs, I’m their mother.

Dogs (like rats) are multitalented but they are also not very smart the way humans are. A recent book, devoted to the intelligence of dogs, is 250+ pages long (Stanley Coren, The Intelligence of Dogs:...

Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.

Sometimes you don’t need words to feel better; you just need the nearness of your dog.

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn’t. Rocky could...

Dogs own space and cats own time.

Love is love,” I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. “Loss is loss.

Don’t make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they’ll treat you like dogs.

Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask...

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.

The sheep, I guess demented with love, didn’t object to this at all. Casimir somehow found time to pull up some grass for it, and it lay down and munched its grass and then chewed...

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

I’ll believe it if I see it” for dogs translates to “I’ll believe it if I smell it.” So don’t bother yelling at them; it’s the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your...

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don’t say she will but she can.

What do dogs do on their day off?; Can’t lie around – that’s their job!

Dog’s just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.

I cried during Old Yeller. Not the part when the dog got shot, but in the beginning, just before the movie actually starts.

But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through...

MANY DOGS RUN WILD IN THE CITY.SOME ARE ABANDONED BY THEIR OWNERSAND OTHERS ARE BORN TO LOST DOGS.STRAYS HAVE A LIMITED LIFE EXPECTANCYEVEN WHEN THEY BAND TOGETHER IN PACKS.THEY ARE PREY TO DISEASE, PARASITES,WEATHER AND...

I like being on my own. I mean, I’m sure a Pack’s best for some dogs, but I’ve walked alone since I left my Pup Pack. I can look after myself.

In a dog’s life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the...

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at the central coming-and-going point. Gil called them concierge dogs. And it’s true, they were inquisitive and accommodating. But they...

EVERY DOG’S STORYI have a bed, my very own.It’s just my size.And sometimes I like to sleep alonewith dreams inside my eyes.But sometimes dreams are dark and wild and creepyand I wake and am afraid,...

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Okay,” I said. “Now can I try riding a broomstick?” “No. Most witches don’t use broomsticks because they aren’t that comfortable. The only reason witches use broomsticks is because they are lightweight and easy to...

Terror”There is something About youThat seems so youngSo trustingThis is the part of you that I most love And the part of you that I am most frightened to hurt Do you think the German...

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! I always say you can’t get the same love from a dog that you can from...

It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human...

DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world’s worship.

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

That’s the thing about being a Labrador retriever – you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and never at all by somber worry; every day was a romp....

Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.The wind moves like a wounded animal.The ground must be full of teeth by now.

I would expect to see this infection moving thorough groups of dogs until a large percentage gets infected and there are a lot of immune dogs.