Even Mongo liked him, although Mongo likes everybody. (Also Mongo was so thrilled with himsel for staying in the dog bed till I’d released him that nothing was going to blow his mood.)

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Come meet my dog.””What’s the dog’s name?””Justice.””Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.

Everybody oughta have a dog,” he said thoughtfully, his hand still scratching Beau. “Dogs teach you love and kindness. They remind you what’s important.” He nodded and took a sip of his coffee. “A life...

They all knew this, but this didn’t stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house....

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?””I give.””You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there’s...

Council did vote by resolution not to allow dogs at Railroad Days and it seemed to work real good,

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

Some of the dirtiest dogs, past and present, had mothers

As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.

people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don’t live as long as people do.

She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again...

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble.A dog is a true and loving friend. A dogis also a hedonist.

Buy a gift for a dog, and you’ll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don’t have anything to offer to it, it won’t even recognize your arrival;...

Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is the norm. —Penny SweeneyMagic All Around

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

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...

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

When they are away, you will often look for the baby doll, but it is not always there, where it is supposed to be, where you left it. Sometimes The Baby moves it, or she...

The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is...

Mother Nature’s ruthless to the weak, but isn’t arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership–to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn’t rule by fear...

I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person.

After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin’s newspaper.

I’m a dog lover and sex addict. Those two things are unrelated.

A dog might feel as majestic as a lion, might bark as loud as a roar, might have a heart as mighty and brave as a Lion’s heart,But at the end of the day, a...

Dogs are exceptionally intelligent creatures. My dog, for example, taught me that not only am I a cat person, but that it isn’t really a dog at all, but that it is in fact a...

Many of these dogs are sweet and energetic but just need the right care. But many people just come in and don’t take the time to get to know the animals.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Ginger is not distracted by the way things could be, used to be, or should be. She perceives only what is. Our reliance on the intuition of a dog is often a way to find...

There are some residents who are allergic or just don’t care much for dogs. Sophie is sensitive to that, and after being told to leave a few times she gets the hint.

I don’t think twice about picking up my dog’s poop, but if another dog’s poop is next to it, I think, ‘Eww, dog poop!

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!

Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were...

Over the years I’ve come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up...

I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school level. Yet if I leave Poppet a note in block letters telling her to feed the dogs...

Whenever it is possible, we will go in with the dogs and personnel to find those who are still in the wreckage.

If I had a bad day, which, now that I ran my own life, was a helluva lot less than the old days, I sat on the floor with Houdini, placed a hand on his...

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.

When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn’t let the dog in the recovery room.

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.

I want her back” I said “I want HIM back”~Charlie

The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.

You gotta admit, they are beautiful-looking dogs, (but) they are certainly, certainly a handful.

Meanwhile, the mole goes on with its subterranean daydreams,The dogs lie around like rugs

What we seem to be seeing is a virus that’s spreading fairly rapidly, particularly among groups of dogs in kennel and boarding situations.

Another thing I take issue with are people who take their dogs on “play dates,” or even worse, people who choose to dress their dogs up in outfits better suited for homosexuals participating in a...