Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.
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.
I have a dog. It's an English mastiff called Dolly. Her middle name is Poppy.
I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch.
Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a plant that I had passed a thousand time and never given a second thought to. But the dog is curious. And the dog stops and wants to smell this and smell that. And the dog makes you look and focus and take the time.
When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.
We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.
I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
My favorite animals are dogs.
As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.
I love being home. I play with my dogs.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.
Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible for the well-being of another living thing is actually great for anyone, kid or adult. It teaches empathy, consistency, and so much more - especially if that pet is a dog.
Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.
For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.
If my dog Ella, named after the Rihanna song 'Umbrella', could be with me at all times, that would make me happy.
If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.
You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.
I've got kids, goats. My wife always wanted a donkey, so I bought her one.
I'm a lot less cranky when it's just me and my dog.
A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.
I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.
I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.
