Canine Behavior Quotes

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their future. For the most part, I trust them to make the right choices for themselves. I always look forward to seeing them, and I love just watching them sleep. What a great relationship.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

My favorite animals are dogs.

People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.

Some dogs act like people and some people act like dogs.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

It's a big mistake when encyclopedias say "loyal" - this dog, this breed has this ability to be loyal, to be a one person dog. I don't agree with that. I think all dogs are honest, all dogs have integrity, all dogs are loyal and they're all capable of loving you. It doesn't come from the breed. It comes from the dog.

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure.

Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

Dogs are obsessed with being happy.

A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.

When a dog is balanced, you are going to enjoy a true friend.

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.