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

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.

People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappoint them, or if they do, the owners manage to forget about...

Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we’ve placed over our lives like a...

O Indra, destroy all those lustful people behaving like birds…. angry ones behaving like wolves…. greedy ones behaving like vultures…. enticed ones like owls….. arrogant ones like eagles and the jealous ones behaving like dogs.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am.

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs — a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in...

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go...

I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch‐light ; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume…

my master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating stand “pete s holiday

There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that...

It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you’ll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn’t want and walking (or carrying)...

Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort.The magic that gleams an instant between Argos...

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

I say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn’t true. Not entirely.Difference is slippery.

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world...

I’m convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

You’ll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

I think he has what it takes to be something special. He could be one of the elite dogs if he stays sound.

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

…lack of leadership can have fearsome consequences. A dog’s mental health, after all, depends to a large degree on leadership: dogs get enormously distressed when they think no one is in charge. Accordingly, it’s not...

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

What the fuck does he think he’s doing anyway? And when has running around in a figure eight ever helped anyone?

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

I’ve seen men suffer like rural dogs and others prosper like gods.

We get a lot of calls where the person is murdered at home, but is not found for a period of time. And so the animals have already started to take the body apart because...

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

I’ll give you a treat to get in your cage. I’m rewarding you for punishing you. Who am I? If you guessed either dog catcher or politician you are correct.

You’ll see dogs here of all shapes and sizes. As long as they’re on a lead and have been vaccinated, they’re certainly welcome. In fact, we encourage it.

[Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. “Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn’t dead!”Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white-and-ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed,...

He wears jeans, untucked shirts, and a Glock 19, and he has a big shaggy dog named Bob.

When was the last time someone was so overjoyed to see you, so brimming with love and affection that they literally ran to greet you? A dog will do that for you–ten, twenty, thirty times...

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows...

Percy wakes me (fourteen)Percy wakes me and I am not ready.He has slept all night under the covers.Now he’s eager for action: a walk, then breakfast.So I hasten up. He is sitting on the kitchen...

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he...

I will not be my father’s dog.

Every year thousands of dogs are abandoned to shelters because of behavior problems. And these are things that can be corrected with just basic training. Dogs are being killed because of lack of training, and...

He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from...

We don’t need guns, man, we got dogs!

Universal dilemma of the real dog person: You leave the dog home, you worry what will happen to him when you’re out. You take the dog with you, you worry that something will happen to...

(Suguri) You had an extra long walk, didn’t you…? Let’s go home…

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could...

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Did you know that the Russians sent dogs into space? My mother told me this when I was a boy. Nobody knew the effects of space on a body, you see, so they sent dogs...

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

I also believe that man’s continued domestication (if you care to use that silly euphemism) of dogs is motivated by fear: fear that dogs, left to evolve on their own, would, in fact, develop thumbs...