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 Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid.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.

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.

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.

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...

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at the central coming-and-going point. Gil called them concierge dogs. And it’s true, they were inquisitive and accommodating. But they...

EVERY DOG’S STORYI have a bed, my very own.It’s just my size.And sometimes I like to sleep alonewith dreams inside my eyes.But sometimes dreams are dark and wild and creepyand I wake and am afraid,...

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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...

Terror”There is something About youThat seems so youngSo trustingThis is the part of you that I most love And the part of you that I am most frightened to hurt Do you think the German...

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! I always say you can’t get the same love from a dog that you can from...

It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human...

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.

Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.The wind moves like a wounded animal.The ground must be full of teeth by now.

I would expect to see this infection moving thorough groups of dogs until a large percentage gets infected and there are a lot of immune dogs.

I don’t appreciate people who celebrate their dog’s birthdays with “dog parties,” and then invite their friends who don’t even have dogs. I understand why people like dogs, and I think they definitely bring more...

A bad reputation will dog you for years. A good reputation will cat you.

If facial expressions had fur, then I’d snuggle your sneer. It’s so ugly it’s cute, like one of those little dogs, the kind Ryan Lilly has.

The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.

Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

We have a new puppy and that’s enough! Two babies and three dogs is enough.

I like dogsBig dogsLittle dogsFat dogsDoggy dogsOld dogsPuppy dogsI like dogsA dog that is barking over the hillA dog that is dreaming very stillA dog that is running wherever he willI like dogs.

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

(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even...

She really talks to you, doesn’t she?” She asked. “it’s not just you talking to her. She talks BACK.””hel, half the time she starts it.” I said, half-defensively. “I know it’s weird.””Well, yes, it’s weird....

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours.

You can’t replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that’s not to say you shouldn’t get more dogs and people in your life.

It will be the first official memorial that honors these dogs.