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...

It was raining cats and dogs. My clothes were saturated with meows and barks.

I took my shoes for a walk. They’re furry and they bark.

We’ll know we’ve got it right when they choose for themselves,” he used to say. That doesn’t make sense. ‘That’s what I thought too. I asked him what he meant, but he just shrugged. I...

When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend time with my dogs, go hiking, do a little traveling.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are...

I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that’s not so stupid, looking back… maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt...

A dog’s spirit dies hard.

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

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

Sometimes I think I like dogs more than I like humans. The only time a dog has ever betrayed me… was by dying.

They say that a few minutes each day of petting your dog can raise your serotonin levels.

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said — yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

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

I’ve trained and bred more than 4,000 dogs over the years. The next logical step was to try and feed them.

I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its way mattered, that working hard mattered, that feeling things mattered, that...

As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives.

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but… why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

මෙතෙක් කාමරේ සැපට හිටපු මම ටිකෙන් ටික මිදුලට වුණා. මිදුල වුනත් මට සැපයි දැන් ගෙවන ජිවිතේ බැලුවම. මිදුලට දැම්මම මම දොර පහුරු ගාන්න පටන් ගත්තා. ලස්සන දොර සිරීලා අවලක්ෂණ වුණා. නෝනා හා මහත්මයා මා සමඟ...