“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.”— Robert McCammon, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Communication, Listening
“Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment.”— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, selfishness, Future, live in the moment
“I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.”— Meg Donohue, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Luck, Happiness
“There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.”— John Grogan, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Pets, owners
“We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No one reminds us of this better than our dogs. Perhaps the human condition will always include attempts to remind ourselves that we are separate from the rest of the natural world. We are different fro…”— Patricia B. McConnell, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Connection, emotions
“This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs, and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Wonder, Pets
“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”— Amy Sedaris, amazon.comTagged: Pets, Dogs, Love, Death
“Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, canine, Love
“Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter ac…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, therapy, Life
“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, humans, Family
“Our pets are the kids who never leave home, and that's absolutely fine by us because these kids don't ask for the keys to the car, don't turn up drunk at two in the morning, and don't complain if you turn their bedroom into a home gym. Their presence in times of upheaval and transition acts as a tou…”— Nick Trout, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Children, Love, Family
“Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man--spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort--may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.”— Albert Payson Terhune, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, God, owner
“My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were be…”— Blaize Clement, amazon.comTagged: Pets, Happiness, Dogs, cats
“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”— Charles Yu, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, human, Greatness
“I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions.”— Mary Ann Shaffer, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Friendship, Friends
“Dogs look at you with both eyes open. Emotions on a sleeve, that wagging tail.”— S.L. Northey, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, emotions, body language
“When I held my new puppy in my arms, I broke down in tears. Because I had fallen in love. Not somewhat in love. Not partly in love. Not in a limited amount. I fell fully in love with a creature I had known for all of nine hours.”— Steven Rowley, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Love, Pets
“If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed.”— Dale Mayer, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Pets, Animals
“One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on w…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Happiness, Love
“There is little that a puppy won’t fix, even if the fix is for a short time.”— Lauren Groff, amazon.comTagged: Puppies, Dogs, How To Be Happy