If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas...

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

There is always hope for man or dog in life if only they be cute

You’d help if you could, wouldn’t you, boy?” I said. “It’s no wonder they call you man’s best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our...

A pile of hairy towels is not a passable substitute for a dog.

Do dogs understand death? Do they have souls? Do they go to heaven? I have alway believed so, but this [event] confirmed that all of God’s creatures , humans and animals, have a soul and...

You know what I should do?” Hoshino asked excited. “Of course,” the cat said. “What’d I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Men are like dogs,” Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the...

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.

Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?

He was responsible for controlling his dogs and he didn’t do it, so he’s ultimately responsible for what happened that night.

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

And so what do dogs want? They want what they want when they want it. Just like us.

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...

I have been trying to find gas masks for dogs. I have a vet friend who said that somebody in his office got some

Oh yes,” said Jana. “You want the birdbath.” She let him down onto the rim of the birdbath, then watched as he dipped his head, lowered his chest into the water, and raised it. Having...

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.