Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

In a world of bosses, you are your own master

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.