For the Love of Dogs: A Tribute to Our Ever-faithful Companions
Adopt a dog and your life will never be the same again... and other wise words about man's best friend
If you’ve ever lived with a dog – either as a child or in your adult years – you will know how much our furry friends can enrich your life. They are, after all, the only beings that seem to love us more than they love themselves. People from all walks of life who’ve known the love of a dog, and have loved deeply in return, can’t help but be moved by the experience, as these words of wisdom reveal.
“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.”
– Milan Kundera, author
8 ways having a dog at home can improve your health
– Milan Kundera, author
8 ways having a dog at home can improve your health
“Dogs don’t rationalise. They don’t hold anything against a person. They don’t see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.”
– Cesar Millan, dog behaviourist
– Cesar Millan, dog behaviourist
“Don’t we all have an emotional response to dogs? They help us, they guide us, they rescue us, and, most of all, they love us.”
– W. Bruce Cameron, author of A Dog’s Purpose
Spot the dog! Can you find the camouflaged canines in these homes?
– W. Bruce Cameron, author of A Dog’s Purpose
Spot the dog! Can you find the camouflaged canines in these homes?
“A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.”
– Barbara Kingsolver, author
– Barbara Kingsolver, author
“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.”
– Samuel Butler, poet and novelist
– Samuel Butler, poet and novelist
“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
– Immanuel Kant, philosopher
– Immanuel Kant, philosopher
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, former US President
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, former US President
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
– Roger Caras, wildlife photographer and writer
Colour schemes that complement your dog
– Roger Caras, wildlife photographer and writer
Colour schemes that complement your dog
“If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
– Will Rogers, actor
– Will Rogers, actor
“There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still.”
– Louis de Bernières, author of Red Dog
– Louis de Bernières, author of Red Dog
“Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master and mistress.”
– Louis Sabin, author
– Louis Sabin, author
“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”
– Edward Hoagland, essayist and novelist
– Edward Hoagland, essayist and novelist
“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.”
– Stanley Coren, neuropsychologist
11 dogs that have better beds than us
– Stanley Coren, neuropsychologist
11 dogs that have better beds than us
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.”
– Dean Koontz, novelist
– Dean Koontz, novelist
“My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.”
– Anonymous
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