We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Being patted is what it is all about.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

It doesn't matter where you are in your own personal development, nor has it mattered where you have been culturally; dogs simply don't pass judgment on you the way all of the rest of life and all your other companions seem to.

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.