“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”— John Grogan, amazon.com
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”— Josh Billings, books.google.com
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”— Groucho Marx, amazon.com
“My summer fairy, laying in the tall grass, and chewing on dandelion stems; staring at the big sky and contemplating existence. My wild child, tail dancing like a child’s song, fur as white and soft as morning. And I’m sorry that cuddling isn’t your favorite yet, but you can’t blame a mom for trying…”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com