I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.
Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.
Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.
I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.
Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.
If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.
Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.
I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
Kittens will make your sad go away
She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.
My best source of grounding are animals and nature. Animals live more in the moment and don't worry so much! And nature is proof of a greater power than myself. Both put things in perspective, or at least gently move us forward.
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.
Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.
I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.
I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.
Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)
I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
I didn't want to talk, and I didn't think dogs could solve my problems. But they were so uncritical and un-judgmental. Sometimes when you're really blue, you don't want to talk, but you want that sense of companionship. I certainly enjoy that with my beasts.
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
