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

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

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

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Being patted is what it is all about.

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

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.