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When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.
Sep 10, 2025
Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.
Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne
Every dog must have his day.
And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.
To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.