You brought the fucking Pomeranian bowling?

Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

All dogs are trainable if you have the time and put in the effort. It’s sometimes the people you can’t train. Ninety-eight percent of the things that dogs do wrong, it’s the person, not the dog, who is at fault.

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 even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble.

I’ve grown up with dogs and love dogs.

I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.

I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.

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 me.

Who would vandalize a doghouse? I ask.”Cats?” Bee suggests.

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.

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 for these partnerships, some of the greatest problems arise.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.

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

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

Thus went my first Court Day.I think i’m going to puke.

You don’t know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you find yourself in danger of acquiring a facial scar.”On the plus side, it’s so situated as potentially to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I’m never kissing my dog again.

We are not sure about Nathan yet, he got a kick in the knee last week (in the Dogs’ intra-club match) and we will have to see how he comes up.

None of us mentioned An Evening of Long Goodbyes, whose race had been so catastrophic that, by the end, neither Frank nor I could summon the will to gloat. He had begun badly, getting his head stuck in the gate and having to be extricated by the stewards, and continued with a series of humiliating...

Buy for me from the King’s own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For,” he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, “I have done with men.

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

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.

I figured if anybody could catch my dogs, it would be him.

Scott walked away and did not look back. They knew Maggie would try to follow him, and she did. In her world, they were a pack, and the pack stayed together.Maggie whined and barked, and he heard her claws scrape the tarmac like files. Budress had cautioned him not to look back or wave bye-bye...

A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.

I don’t belong to the masses, I’ve been against the masses all my life, and I’m not in favour of dogs.

Anyone out without the excuse of a dog should be handcuffed and searched for loneliness.

Carlton, Sydney (1949-), painter and decorator. Those who argue that bestiality should be treated with understanding had a setback in 1998 when Carlton, a married man from Bradford, was sentenced to a year in prison for having intercourse with a Staffordshire bull terrier, named Badger. His defence was that Badger had made the first move....

Dogs are my favorite people.

I’ve long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They’re extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.

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 get off the ground.” “Okay, so what can I fly?””At the moment, nothing,” responded Trillman. “When you are ready, you...

I loved Duncan and I loved being his mother but I wasn’t sure I was prepared to be only his mother. Before we were even married, when Russell and I had gotten our dog, Humbert, I had walked him early one morning, and as I stood on a line for coffee, someone had offered him...

Where’s your dog?” Peter’s voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he must have misheard.”Pardon?””Your dog.””Yes?””Isn’t he with you today?” Justin looked at Peter.”Ha bloody ha.” Peter stuck his head out of the stream of water, features dripping. He smiled shyly. “I love greyhounds.” Justin stared.”My dog is imaginary.””Oh.” Peter looked...

Search dogs pointed to a particular spot, so we brought in extendable cameras … we were able to see a person’s head and started digging, and next to that body we found another one.

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?

It does no good to bark at the television,I said. I’ve tried it too. So he stopped.

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.He is sweeter than soap.He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,which can’t even bark…

I always splash on the cologne before a blind date because dogs can smell fear

You know where we got stuck? We were looking for faithfull, loving and perfect relationships-males who were always glad to see us.” “So?” “We already have that!” “What do you mean?” “We’ve got dogs!

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.

Having another creature absolutely committed to me is a big boost to my ego, makes me feel like the king of my castle. But its no way for a dog to live.

It’s hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

Plus je vois le homes, plus j’admire les chiens” (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs).

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog…It is a completely selfless love.

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen–and some of them feel about as planned.

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 their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals’ lovely fur and forgive their claws and...

The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.

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 joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.