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

After we bring food home from the grocery store…Dogs must think we are the greatest hunters ever!

And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don’t you think?

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Because no one ever listens to the dog.

A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone and he does not know what to do except...

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another...

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing...

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of...

The dominance panacea is so out of proportion that entire schools of training are based on the premise that if you can just exert adequate dominance over the dog, everything else will fall into place....

The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on

It made me feel better. Mouse might not have been thesmartest creature on earth, but he was steady, kind, loyal, andwas possessed of the uncanny wisdom of beasts for knowingwhom to trust. I might not...

I don’t much care for people—never have, never will. I got my reasons. I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right and he’ll treat you right—he’ll keep you...

If I was going to spend the next day in jail for obstruction of justice, I’d better get a good nights sleep.

I think that terriers are not really the prettiest dogs, but they’re scrappy and they’re loyal, and they get it done, you know what I mean?

I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn’t know what he was...

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

Nature can be modified by nurture; even dogs can cease to relish meat when they are trained to relish only vegetarian food.

Dogs are my favorite people.

In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.

Finally, especially in the case of medical-response canines and those that serve handlers with invisible disabilities, it’s not merely the necessity of the dog that’s questioned but also the existance of the disability itself. And...

Discipline isn’t about showing a dog who’s boss; it’s about takingresponsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

I never gave it a thought, so I’m sure that there were dogs on campus.

Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’re going to lose a dog, and there’s going to be great anguish, so you live fully...

Erlaube,” fuhr Meister Abraham fort, “erlaube, mein Johannes, mit dem Just magst du mich kaum vergleichen. Er rettete einen Pudel, ein Tier, das jeder gern um sich duldet, von dem sogar angenehme Dienstleistungen zu erwarten,...

We all agree men are dogs, with the similar conviction let’s also agree to the quiet truth; women are desperate dogs.

Scratching Yogi’s ears Michelle says ‘That’s just part of his job, the comforting. That’s what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he’s more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being.” This...

They said it was all right – Col. Pappas had authorized the use of dogs as long as they wore muzzles.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

We’re going to investigate,” Fireheart meowed. “We can’t decide how to get rid of these dogs until we know exactly what we have to face. We’re not going to attack them, not yet-have you got...

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart....

Walter had never liked cats. They’d seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize...

Sometimes we have to have a dogs foot shaved so we can see the nails painted, … But we do whatever they want us to as long as it is not hurting the dog.

But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot step entirely, and from which we benefit. For wilderness is our first home...

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.

Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies

I’ve grown up with dogs and love dogs.

I couldn’t date someone who didn’t like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn’t like animals, I am a little suspicious of them.

I’ve changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore,Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,You see me there.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat...

They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting...

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy...

We who choose to surround ourselveswith lives even more temporary than ourown, live within a fragile circle;easily and often breached.Unable to accept its awful gaps,we would still live no other way.We cherish memory as the...

Her love stays with me wherever I go. That’s because I have it on a leash, like a dog, and I take it for walks like I do with my pet wheelchair.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better.