The best felling I have ever had about dogs came in a primitive Akah village in the mountains of northern Thailand. The Akah keep dogs like we keep chickens and pigs. They treat their cattle as useful working companions, give them names and would never, ever think of eating one. But they eat dogs. They […]
Dogs Quotes
Even a dog has rules of conduct.
Elizabeth’s back at the Red Cross, and I’m walking the dog. (describing life after the elections, 1997)
I can see stopping a car for a dog. But a cat? You squish a cat and go on.
He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that I am his reason for being; by the way he rests against my leg; […]
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of the human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity – if we have ears to hear.
Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.
The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that’s why he tries to bite the mailman.
A leaky faucet, a barking dog – those are things you tolerate.
