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He may be a dog

but don't tell me

he doesn't have

a real grip on life.


~Kay Hailey

I saved one dog and it didn't change the world but surely the world changed for that one dog.

If you don't live with a dog, how do you find joy?

You can't save every dog in the shelter.   Just this one.

Poodles are the role model for being alive.

Oh to be the person

that my puppy

thinks I am.

To a person the greatest blessing is individual liberty.  To a dog it is the last word in despair.     ~WL Phelps

In a perfect world every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog.

I have caught more ills from people coughing and sneezing over me than from my kissing dogs.

                        ~Barbara Woodhouse

Love up on a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

If your dog isn't fond

of someone

you probably shouldn't be either.

Dogs are

people too.

No hour of life is lost that is spent with my dog.

When you're happy

dance around

and wag your whole body.

Who loves me will love my dogs.

Our dogs love us more than they love themselves. ~ J Billings

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.    ~Rita Rudner

                          

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.  ~Andy Rooney

Dogs are pack animals, yet it's difficult to imagine a pack of Standard Poodles ...  and if there were such a thing as a pack of  Standard Poodles, where would they rove to?  Bloomingdale's?    ~Yvonne Clifford

                           

There is no therapy in the world quite like living with a dog.

The ideal age for a person to own a dog is ..  well, right now.

Dogs rarely talk about themselves.

They listen to you talk about yourself while pretending they are interested in the conversation.

We need dogs.

They help us.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.  ~ B Williams

“His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.”

                            ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

              referring to her Cocker Spaniel “Flush”

When you leave in the morning, they lay their nose in the door crack and stay there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.         ~Emma Brombeck

                          

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers

is contained in the dog.

                                          ~Franz Kafka

Dogs have masters

Cats have staff

Horses have servants

Best dogs

are

shelter dogs.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

                                                    ~Plato

Puppies

happen

All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of kibble and he'll listen to me any day.

I find the question "Would you do it to your dog"? to be a great leveler.  If you wouldn't do something to your dog, why would you do it to any other being?

               ~Marc Bekoff

A dog living in a mansion is no happier than a dog living under a bridge, as long as he's with somebody who loves him.             ~Kinky Friedman

Cats seem aloof when we contrast them with dogs who often appear to reflect on their own inadequacy.

                         ~J. Masson

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

                                   ~Joe Gores

The job so many dogs really perform is to allow us to project our feelings upon them, to assume they are excited or downhearted or lonely when we are.  They don't talk, or talk back, so they lend themselves effortlessly and endlessly to this sort of projection.

                   ~Anna Quindlen

The traits we ascribe to our dogs, the stories we tell ourselves about them, are, at some level, our own stories.

                         ~Anna Quindlen

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you are feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.

                         ~Andy Rooney

Whenever you visit my grave, have regret but also happiness in your heart at the remembrance of my long and happy life with you. No matter how deep my sleep, I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.         ~Eugene O'Neill

                 

A dog is like an eternal Peter Pan, a child who never grows old and who therefore is always available to love and be loved.

                         ~Aaron Katcher

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does.

                                   ~C Morley

Dogs need to sniff the ground.  It's how they keep abreast of current events.  The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued into the next yard.

                   ~Dave Barry

When loved ones come home

always run to greet them.

Take naps

Stretch before rising

Play daily

Thrive on attention and let people touch you

Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.

Eat with gusto.

Stop when you've had enough.

If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.

                   ~Dave Barry

I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.       ~Nora Ephron


       

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life:  my music and my dog.  ~ Albert Schweitzer

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.

                                    ~D Barry

              

There's not much you can do with a terrier, ma'am.

          ~LA Dog Trainer

Pomeranians speak only to Poodles, and Poodles speak only to God.

                                    ~Charles Kuralt

                   

Protect  my dog.

Humans wind up having the relationship with dogs that they fool themselves into believing they will have with other people.

                                   ~Anna Quindlen

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.       ~Dave Barry

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibility than the friendship of a human being.        ~Konrad Lorenz

The Airedale ..  an unrivaled mixture of brains and clownish wit, the very ingredients one looks for in a spouse.

                                   ~D Barry

Beagles are people, just with shorter legs and fur coats.

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, "Doesn't this guy have a dog?"   ~ Frans De Waal

I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan, and see wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.     ~ M Markoe

If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went.  ~ Will Rogers

If your dog is fat, you aren’t getting enough exercise.

You can say any foolish thing to a dog and the dog will give you a look that says:

“Wow, you’re right!  I never would have thought of that!”  ~Dave Barry

Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.  ~ Roger Caras

When a person is in trouble,

God sends them a dog.

          ~A DeLamartine

Here are more Pet Gems:

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  2. Bullet  Cats

  3. Bullet  Horses

  4. Bullet  Animal Companions

  5. Bullet  Animal Rights & Rescue

When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.          ~D Barry


                                                       

My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet.

 ~ Edith Wharton

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