We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but does not show it. What a dog feels, a dog shows, and, conversely, what a dog shows, a dog actually does feel.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

Dogs love us not only because we feed them, walk them, or groom them, or protect them, but because we are fun. How astonishing!

We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but does not show it. What a dog feels, a dog shows, and, conversely, what a dog shows, a dog actually does feel.

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.

Dogs never lie about love.

Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."