If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

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

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

Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.

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.