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The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
— Christopher Wren
I also believe that man’s continued domestication (if you care to use that silly euphemism) of dogs is motivated by fear: fear that dogs, left to evolve on their own, would, in fact, develop thumbs and smaller tongues, and therefore would be superior to men, who are slow and cumbersome, standing erect as they do. This is why dogs must live under the constant supervision of people.... From what Denny has told me about the government and its inner workings, it is my belief that this despicable plan was hatched in a back room of none other than the White House, probably by an evil adviser to a president of questionable moral and intellectual fortitude, and probably with the correct assessment—unfortunately, made from a position of paranoia rather than of spiritual insight—that all dogs are progressively inclined regarding social issues.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!
— Craig Shoemaker
Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap over a chasm of ignorance and misunderstanding between species and worlds...and a baby step taken into life's endless possibilities for wonder and joy and surprise that could no more be reversed than one's first taste of chocolate.A dog kiss.
— Berkeley Breathed, Flawed Dogs: The Shocking Raid on Westminster
Where's your dog?" Peter's voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he must have misheard."Pardon?""Your dog.""Yes?""Isn't he with you today?" Justin looked at Peter."Ha bloody ha." Peter stuck his head out of the stream of water, features dripping. He smiled shyly. "I love greyhounds." Justin stared."My dog is imaginary.""Oh." Peter looked interested. "That's unusual." Justin put his head under the water. When he emerged, Peter was still looking at him."Less work," Peter offered, cheerily. "If the dog's imaginary, I mean. Not so much grooming, feeding, et cetera.
— Meg Rosoff, Just in Case
Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment.
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
AlmondineEventually, she understood the house was keeping a secret from her.All that winter and all through the spring Almondine had known something was going to happen, but no matter where she looked she couldn’t find it. Sometimes, when she entered a room, there was the feeling that the thing that was going to happen had just been there, and she would stop and pant and peer around while the feeling seeped away as mysteriously as it had arrived. Weeks might pass without a sign, and then a night would come, when, lying nose to tail beneath the window in the kitchen corner, listening to the murmur of conversation and the slosh and clink of dishes being washed, she felt it in the house again and she whisked her tail in long, pensive strokes across the baseboards and silently collected her feet beneath her and waited. When half an hour passed and nothing appeared, she groaned and sighed and rolled onto her back and waited to see if it was somewhere in her sleep.
— David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.
— Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
— Kristan Higgins, Catch of the Day
I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.
— Cesar Millan
Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership--to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn't rule by fear and anger, but by calm strength and assertiveness.
— Cesar Millan
The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.
— Courtney Milan, Unraveled
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
— Clarence Day Jr., This Simian World
given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love.
— Milan Kundera
No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.
— Nathaniel Macon
What the fuck does he think he's doing anyway? And when has running around in a figure eight ever helped anyone?
— C.K. Kelly Martin
To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.
— Barbara Dana, A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
(Suguri) You had an extra long walk, didn't you...? Let's go home...
— Yukiya Sakuragi, Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs, Volume 8
I nearly tripped over Stieglitz, my dog, a forty-pound black-and-white keeshond (pronounced caze-hawnd) furball. He lunged at me with unbridled glee because the mere sight of my presence always made his day. It's important to have a dog. Dogs love unconditionally. (Thwonk)
— Joan Bauer
Every year thousands of dogs are abandoned to shelters because of behavior problems. And these are things that can be corrected with just basic training. Dogs are being killed because of lack of training, and that's what the Canine Good Citizen program is all about. (Mary Burch, AKC)
— Martin Kihn, Bad Dog: A Love Story
The very best thing about dogs is how they just know when you need them most, and they’ll drop everything that they’re doing to sit with you awhile.
— Steven Rowley
Because dogs live in the present. Because dogs don't hold grudges. Because dogs let go of all their anger daily, hourly, and never let it fester. They absolve and forgive with each passing minute. Every turn of a corner is the opportunity for a clean slate. Every bounce of a ball brings joy and the promise of a fresh chase.
— Steven Rowley
I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it's also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.
— Cesar Millan
Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.
— Cesar Millan
I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!
— Jonah Goldberg
William groaned. It was Vimes. Worse, he was smiling, in a humourless predatory way."Ah, Mr de Worde," he said, stepping inside. "There are several thousand dogs stampeding through the city at the moment. This is an interesting fact, isn't it?"He leaned against the wall and produced a cigar. "Well, I say dogs," he said, striking a match on Goodmountain's helmet. "Mostly dogs, perhaps I should say. Some cats. More cats now, in fact, 'cos, hah, there's nothing like a, yes, a tidal wave of dogs, fighting and biting and howling, to sort of, how can I put it, give a city a certain . . . busyness. Especially underfoot,because - did I mention it? -they're very nervous dogs too. Oh, and did I mention cattle?" he went on, conversationally. "You know how it is, market day and so on, people are driving the cows and, my goodness, around the corner comes a wall of wailing dogs . . . Oh, and I forgot about the sheep. And the chickens, although I imagine there's not much left of the chickens now.
— Terry Pratchett, The Truth
In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined.
— Kathryn Davis, Versailles
I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its way mattered, that working hard mattered, that feeling things mattered, that even sadness and loss mattered, because it was all part of something that would live on. But I had also come to recognize that not everything needs to be durable. the lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating. Rin Tin Tin did not need to be remembered in order to be happy; for him, it was always enough to have that instant when the sun was soft, when the ball was tossed and caught, when the beloved rubber doll was squeaked. Such a moment was complete in itself, pure and sufficient.
— Susan Orlean
Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.
— Ted Tally, Terra Nova
What was a surprise was when the dog answered his que
— Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen
Another of the great civilizations, the Aztecs, raised a breed of hairless chihuahuas especially for eating. When the Conquistadors arrived and found dog on the menu, they were of the same opinion as Mademoiselle, that this was evidence of the worst form of barbarism. They, the Spaniards, used dogs as befits civilized and Christian men - to hunt down fugitive Indians and tear them to pieces.
— Medlar Lucan, The Decadent Cookbook
After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper.
— Dean Koontz, Breathless
Lately, I don't talk much except to Mel. I make an exception because he has a dog.
— Eileen Granfors, Stairs of Sand
However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot.
— J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet backpack on wheels. When I first saw it, I thought maybe the dog was supposed to wear the backpack, but it turned out the person wore the backpack with the dog in it.
— Claire Cook, Summer Blowout
There also wasn't one single bit of grass or dirt outside the airport. Even the median strip was a concrete sidewalk. Where did Atlanta's pet travelers pee? Maybe city dogs just learned to use the sidewalk. We kept walking. It looked like if we crossed the road that all the cars used to get onto the highway, we might come to a planted-up area, but we also might get killed. Finally, I just lifted Cannoli up and plopped her down on a great big ashtray built into the top of the trash barrel. "Good thing you're not a German shepherd," I said.
— Claire Cook, Summer Blowout
Do not feed that beggar. Hamlet, lie down.” The dog ignored her.“Down,” Viktor ordered, his deep voice stern. The dog whined and then lay down. The prince looked at her. “You need to be more forceful.”“I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.
— Patricia Grasso, Seducing the Prince
Go on Louis, jump up,” I’d say every day for the first three months. From the vacant look on his face, I may as well have asked him to solve a Rubik cube puzzle.
— Cee Tee Jackson
While most people love certain species to pieces (e.g. cats and dogs), others are more loved in pieces (e.g. cows and pigs)
— Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded.
— Robin McKinley, Shadows
I always say my biological clock must be digital, because I've never heard it ticking.
— Lucy Dillon, Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts
There is no way to communicate to a dog that one is sorry that we live in the world but it is the only place that one can live. Or maybe there is no way not to communicate that.
— Jonathon Safran Foer
My closest friend at this time was my tiny pet dog - it was one of the cute little breeds that people in other countries put frocks on. I wouldn't have been allowed to do that, because putting clothes on dogs was a well-known example of capitalist degeneracy.
— Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm
— Jon Katz, The Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me
Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.
— John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts
Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of one side until there isn't any more,and then after a bit a new one grows. Men do that with all sorts of things, actually - rose bushes for instance.... The man who slices the bits off brings them down here and then they're used for making those lights on the cars. Clever isn't it... They only last about one night, I should think, because you hardly ever see them shining by day.
— Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
The dogs came racing up the stairs. They danced at Rima's feet, frantic with the need to communicate something to her. Little Timmy's down the well! Feed us ice cream and potato chips! Sometimes there's a benefit to not sharing a language.
— Karen Joy Fowler, Wit's End
Mislabeled the sign,” a cocky voice called from the door. “Should read ‘Doggie Daycare’ with the number of pups packed into this place.
— Katherine McIntyre, Forged Alliances
The dog barked and wagged his tail. He was a huge, shaggy creature, ten stone of dog at least, but friendly. 'Who does he belong to?' asked Podrick. 'Why, to himself, and to the Seven. As to his name, he has not told me what it is. I call him Dog.
— George R.R. Martin
Sometimes, it turns out, the most important decisions in life are made by your dog.
— Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
A puppy feels like life and love. Their entire bodies are soft—fur, skin, the pads of their feet new and delicate. They radiate warmth in the way science can explain, but it goes further than that. The heat of affection pours out of their eyes and makes their little butts wiggle like crazy as soon as they see a person—they don’t even care who. They’re love, encapsulated.
— Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species
Dogs were like the worst drunks - lunging at crotches then pissing over other people's shoes.
— Lucy Wood, Weathering
In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude.
— Okey Ndibe, Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
You could be Charles Manson, or Hitler, or even a lawyer who advertises on television, and your dog will still think you're the greatest thing ever. This tells you something very important about dogs: They are not very bright.
— Dave Barry, I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
It's just much easier with dogs. You don't get laid
—  but you also don't get the feeling you're hurting their feelings all the time.
Morino: What does the kidnapper do with those things?Yuka: Those things?Morino: You know, the stinky things with four legs that make a lot of 
— Otsuichi, Goth
If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.
— McCall Hoyle, The Thing with Feathers
Other useful commands to teach your dog are 'stay,' 'heel,' 'remove your snout from that person's groin,' 'stop humping the Barcalounger,' 'do not bark violently for two hours at inanimate objects such as a flowerpot,' ' do not eat poop,' and 'if you must eat poop, then at least refrain from licking my face afterward'.
— Dave Barry, I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.
— Lord Dunsany
She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.
— Sonya Hartnett, Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
Each evening she held his head in her hands and ran her aching fingers thru the thick ruff of fur around his neck. He burrowed against her, sighing devotion.
— Meg Rosoff, The Bride's Farewell
Poor, dear old Mack, he was ninety-eight per cent perfect. His two percent failing was that he had absolutely no idea of the value or the power of arbitration. He was the veteran of a hundred battles, and I never once could say to the other fellow, 'Your dog started it.
— William S. Hart, My Life East & West
I can still smell dog poo everywhere. It stinks.
— Emily  Williams, Letters to Eloise
One of the biggest myths debunked by science is that dogs see only in black and white. Contrary to that popular belief, dogs have dichromatic vision, meaning that they can see shades of yellow and blue.
— Victoria Stilwell
On the steps leading to a doorwas a scrub brush that was blue.I snatched it quick and ran for homebecause it was just the thing to chew.
— Melinda K. Trotter, Buster the Treasure Hunter Dog
We were wolves once / Wild and wary / Then we noticed you had sofas
— Francesco Marciuliano, I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs
The way Bunker loved me, so fully, clearly, and without exception, helped me remember every day to try to bring that kind of love to myself and others in my life.
— Julie Barton, Dog Medicine
When I held my new puppy in my arms, I broke down in tears. Because I had fallen in love. Not somewhat in love. Not partly in love. Not in a limited amount. I fell fully in love with a creature I had known for all of nine hours.
— Steven Rowley
If you were an animal, what kind would it be?""A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.
— Aline Templeton, Cold in the Earth
Best not to ask "What is it?" until you finish rolling in it.
— Francesco Marciuliano, I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs
That family of Elliotts has always been more stubborn than natteral. Marshall's brother Alexander had a dog he set great store by, and when it died the man actilly wanted to have it buried in the graveyard, 'along with the other Christians,' he said. Course, he wasn't allowed to; so he buried it just outside the graveyard fence, and never darkened the church door again. But Sundays he'd drive his family to church and sit by that dog's grave and read his Bible all the time service was going on. They say when he was dying he asked his wife to bury him beside the dog; she was a meek little soul but she fired up at THAT. She said SHE wasn't going to be buried beside no dog, and if he'd rather have his last resting place beside the dog than beside her, jest to say so. Alexander Elliott was a stubborn mule, but he was fond of his wife, so he give in and said, 'Well, durn it, bury me where you please. But when Gabriel's trump blows I expect my dog to rise with the rest of us, for he had as much soul as any durned Elliott or Crawford or MacAllister that ever strutted.
— L.M. Montgomery
Not one of the three black deaf-mutes who come here every day owns a dog. They sit under the fragrant decay of the big mossy oak speaking with their eyes and hands. They love dogs so much they vibrate, but, like me, they can't bear to own one. Anyone who's ever owned one knows what owning love means.
— Philip Schultz, Failure
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A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.
— Chris Fabry, Not in the Heart
With one hundred miles left to go in the Klondike 200 I began imagining how amazed people would be at the finished line. Entering the Klondike, my sights had been set on merely finishing.
— Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, My Lead Dog Was A Lesbian: Mushing Across Alaska in the Iditarod--the World's Most Grueling Race
Cynophilist: paradoxical being that often despises man and adores the dog, apparently, mainly because of the unconditional love that the latter has for the first.
— Luigina Sgarro
It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each other not far away, trying to roll each other over, which runs contrary to the laws of mechanics even in the case of corgis that are lean and trim, which these were not.This struggle, which appeared to be only one skirmish in a conflict of epochal standing, had driven all lesser considerations, such as guarding the gate, from the combatants' sphere of attention...
— Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs outside, peering in through the lead latticework, flabbergasted that they had, through some enormous lacuna in procedure, been left on the outside, wagging their tails somewhat uncertainly, as if, in a world that allowed such mistakes, nothing could be counted on.
— Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance.
— Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell
To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them - the same as with us, with the difference that it is easier to understand a dog than a man and easier to love him.
— Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele
If anyone had asked Royce Melborn what he hated most at that moment, he would’ve said dogs. Dogs and dwarves topped his list, both equally despised for having so much in common—each was short, vicious, and inexcusably hairy.
— Michael J. Sullivan, The Death of Dulgath
There is little that a puppy won't fix, even if the fix is for a short time.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the completely neurotic. Whenever it came to a halt for a moment or so, the business of starting up again often seemed to cause it trouble, as if it had difficulty in remembering where it had left each of its legs.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
So what part did I play in all this? Well, none really. They completely ignored me for the whole twenty or thirty minutes. Which was perfectly fine, of course, I didn’t mind. But it did puzzle me, because early every morning they would come yelping and scratching around the doors and windows of my house until I got up and took them for their walk. If anything disturbed the daily ritual, like I had to drive into town, or have a meeting, or fly to England or something, they would get thoroughly miserable and simply not know what to do. Despite the fact that they would always completely ignore me whenever we went on our walks together, they couldn’t just go and have a walk without me. This revealed a profoundly philosophical bent in these dogs that were not mine, because they had worked out that I had to be there in order for them to be able to ignore me properly. You can’t ignore someone who isn’t there, because that’s not what “ignore” means.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Frederica tells the park-keepers that Lufra is a purebred "Barcelona collie". Alverstoke catches on and says "No, Frederica! I TOLD you--it is a HOUND, from Baluchistan!" She: "Oh, you might have mentioned it was from ASIA! Very remote; the dog had to be smuggled out because the natives were hostile.
— Georgette Heyer
A strong man next to you in bed is a comfort, but real security is a German Shepherd bitch on guard at the door.
— Susan Conant, A New Leash on Death
Found in trees. Sometimes also in old silent movie theaters, seaside zoos, magic shops, hat shops, time-travel shops, topiary gardents, cowboy boots, castle turrets, comet museums, dog pounds, mermaid ponds, dragon lairs, library stacks (the ones in the back), piles of leaves, piles of pancakes, the belly of a fiddle, the bell of a flower, or in the company of wild herds of typewriters. But mostly in trees.
— Michelle Cuevas, Confessions of an Imaginary Friend
She was better with animals than people. Give her a sick cat or dog, she was golden. Not so much with her own species.
— N. Raines
Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that they start making revenge by behaving bad to dogs, like "Hey, I'm the boss". But nobody stand up and do something about that!
— Deyth Banger
It was an ancient policy with her to be on good terms with anything that outweighed her and had so many teeth, so she broke the bacon in two and gave him the smaller piece. He was a dog. He would not realize he had been slighted.
— Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk
May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... In our religion, we believe in reincarnation. We live many times, you see, always seeking to be wiser and more virtuous. If we eventually lead a blameless life, a perfect life, we leave this world and need not endure it again. Between our human lives, we may be reincarnated as other creatures. Sometimes, when someone has led a nearly perfect life but is not yet worthy of nirvana, that person is reincarnated as a very beautiful dog. When the life as the dog comes to an end, the person is reincarnated one last time as a human being, and lives a perfect life. Your dog is a person who has almost arrived at complete enlightenment and will in the next life be perfect and blameless, a very great person. You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul.
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life:  A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul.
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life:  A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Who knew what attack, what illness. That doubleness again. Like flying: the stillness and speed, serenity and danger.
— Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.
— Jack London
With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the old girl could run. But, if you're very, very lucky there will be the one dog you would lay down your life for - and for me that dog is Buster.
— Will Barrow
People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.
— Sue Grafton, C is for Corpse
Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope.
— Mario Puzo
I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)
— Thomas Pluck
People were kind and friendly and amusing, but they thought that companionship and conversation were synonymous, and some of them had voices that jarred in your head. There was a lot to be said for dogs. They understood without telling you so, and they were always pleasing to look at, awake or asleep, like Bingo. He slept now, with little whistling snores, in his basket at the side of the fire, his stubby legs and one whiskery eyebrow twitching to the fitful tempo of his dreams.
— Monica Dickens
Dogs are the only non-primate animal to look into man's eyes. My mother, behind my ears.
— Grant  Walker
Short guys with attitudes always just kind of made me laugh, like small, yippy dogs.
— A.D. Aliwat, Alpha
Macadamia nuts can be fatal to dogs, sometimes causing seizures and kidney failure.
— John Richard Stephens, Hawai'i Bathroom Book, The
Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow.
— Dan Gemeinhart, The Honest Truth
Thrilled that Reyes and I were outside, and taking that as her cue to get her freak on, Artemis ran around like a gerbil on meth, turning occasionally to make sure we were still watching. And God help us if we weren't.
— Darynda Jones, Eighth Grave After Dark
Qui me amat, amet et canem meum. (Who loves me will love my dog also.)
— Bernard of Clairvaux
. . . she is our dog. And because she is our dog, we can pick out the tiny, almost imperceptible good qualities from the ocean of terrible qualities, and we can cling to them. Because we want to love our dog.
— Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
You've got to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
What do you have in mind? Rebuild the city?" Eric asks. "Or should we skip to the repopulating part?""Shut up," Jost commands. "You aren't funny.""Why? That's the nice part of getting stuck on a completely forsaken piece of dirt.""You better hope that you find someone to help you do it then, because she's taken. I'm sure there's a nice dog around here somewhere. Maybe you should stick to your own species," Jost says.
— Gennifer Albin, Altered
He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.
— Michael Delaware, Blue and the Magical Forest: The Power of Hopes and Dreams
Did I hear things, or can that little dog speak?” said Dibbler.“He says he can’t,” said Victor.Dibbler hesitated. The excitement was unhinging him a little. “Well,” he said, “I suppose he should know.
— Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
He attempted to bark the order and succeeded, albeit with more of a chihuahua result than intended.
— Jeffery Russell, The Dungeoneers
When you buy a pet-store puppy, you know nothing about the health or temperament of the parents. You have no connection to the breeder of the dog, no resource to go to if you have questions or problems a few months or years from now. But perhaps most important, when you buy a pet-store puppy, you contribute to the demand for puppy-mill-bred puppies, and add to the cycle of misery of mill-owned breeding dogs.
— Denise Flaim, Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles
I look down at my black Diablo, head on his paws. He is at my feet. He knows that he must trust to my forgiveness for his daily meat. So he wags his plumed tail and noses at my foot and I pat him gently. Affection, I tell him, is how a dog survives. Knowing how to exist without it is how a woman wrests her life into her own hands. But then it comes, it takes one by surprise. Affection and freedom and the will to risk. Everything that happened since I answered the door to Fleur was leading up to this.
— Louise Erdrich
I just couldn't stand that goddamned yip yip yip.
— William Gay, I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.
— Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found
I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.
— Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found
I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.
— Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found
I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs.
— Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found
I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.
— Thomas Bernhard, Concrete
I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn't know what he was getting into with me either.
— Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found
Sometimes I worry about how attached I am to this dog. About the fact that the primary relationship of my life is with a canine. That at the end of a terrible day I look forward to nothing more than coming home and lying on the bed, under the covers, with a giant Great Dane.
— Eve Marie Mont, Free to a Good Home
I will not be my father's dog.
— Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.
— Jerry Spinelli, Hokey Pokey
If there is a place in heaven for Labrador Retrievers (and I trust there is or I won't go) it'll have to have a brook right smack in the middle - a brook with little thin shoals for wading and splashing; a brook with deep, still pools where they can throw themselves headlong from the bank; a brook with lots of small sticks floating that can be retrieved back to shore where they belong; a brook with muskrats and muskrat holes; a brook with green herons and wood ducks; a brook that is never twice the same with surprises that run and swim and fly; a brook that is cold enough to make the man with the dog run like the devil away from his shaking; a brook with a fine spot to get muddy and a sunny spot or two to get dry.
— Gene Hill
You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.
— Rodney Ulyate
When the soul-penetrating pathos she was beaming at me failed to prevent me from continuing to put things in boxes, the helper dog became increasingly alarmed. Over the ensuing few days, she slowly descended into psychological chaos. The simple dog remained unfazed.
— Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Repetitive, forceful corrections had taught this gentle dog that at a specific spot the handler would always yank the lead. Thus, each time the Newf arrived at that point, she'd freeze for a beat and close her eyes in anticipation of the impending blow. This caused her to lag, which led to another correction, which resulted in more lagging, another correction, ad infinitum.It was a classic example of canine learned helplessness, whereby a dog learns to accept abuse as a natural, inevitable consequence of living with humans. Repeated corrections had only frightened and confused the animal, and she was trying to protect herself in the only way she knew how.
— Joel M. McMains
...lack of leadership can have fearsome consequences. A dog's mental health, after all, depends to a large degree on leadership: dogs get enormously distressed when they think no one is in charge. Accordingly, it's not only nonsensical to fail to establish rules and limits with a dog...but cruel.
— Caroline Knapp
If uncertain, it's best to pass by a possibly good dog than risk injury.
— Joel M. McMains, Dog Logic: Companion Obedience, Rapport-Based Training
Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.
— Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur
They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn't. Rocky could trust; Charger didn't know the meaning of the word.
— Joel M. McMains
Hi, Hello and Welcome to the blobby community here we support all different sizes of DOGS!
— Tictac Colwell
In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.
— Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
Meanwhile, the mole goes on with its subterranean daydreams,The dogs lie around like rugs
— Charles Wright, Black Zodiac
It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.
— Jerry Spinelli
The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.
— Jacob Grimm, Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
A gunshot is the loudest sound in the universe. Especially if the bullet is coming at you.
— Kathy Reichs
Anyone out without the excuse of a dog should be handcuffed and searched for loneliness.
— Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole
— Roger Caras
You're here. I'm here. I love you. I'm gonna pee all over the floor about it.
— Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
For people with patience, time with a dog is a little slice of heaven.
— J.J. Brown, The Doctor's Dreams
There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.
— Mira Grant
An open mind and helpful hands can do much to change a dog's future.
— Mary Debono
Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They have a strong sense of character and live the way we ought to: dogs never compare you to your sister nor make judgments in her favor. Dogs never know what is coming and so live purely in the moment, savoring the good, doing their best to endure the bad--and they offer up this miraculous example so that we can learn from it.
— Linda Gray Sexton, Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians
We don't need geography , dogs are our world
— Dog Lover
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives filled
— Dog Lover
my master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating stand "pete s holiday
— Don Marquis
She is my "Soul Dog" and I totally get it now.
— Christy Bright, Shaggy Dog Eats!: 24+ Recipes for Easy, Delicious Dog Treats
Having another creature absolutely committed to me is a big boost to my ego, makes me feel like the king of my castle. But its no way for a dog to live.
— Michael Morse
Don't always carry your Toy dog. Small dogs have four on the floor and they can use them.
— Darlene Arden
[Some dogs] develop blood feuds with other dogs that are so serious that the only silver lining is a dog's inability to build nuclear weapons in the backyard. -- Patricia McConnell, A Tale of Two Species
— Patricia McConnell
None of us mentioned An Evening of Long Goodbyes, whose race had been so catastrophic that, by the end, neither Frank nor I could summon the will to gloat. He had begun badly, getting his head stuck in the gate and having to be extricated by the stewards, and continued with a series of humiliating and distinctly uncanine trips and stumbles, disgracing himself beyond redemption in the third lap, when his muzzle came off and, to the boos of the crowd, he abandoned the race to leap over the hoardings and snatch a hot dog from the hand of a small boy.
— Paul Murray
I don’t see Number Four though—oh.” Number Four, wearing an unflattering chartreuse jacket, was sitting alone on the chewed-up grass, despondently licking his testicles. “Hmm, I don’t know, Bel . .
— Paul Murray
Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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
Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.
— Stephen King, Under the Dome
When was the last time someone was so overjoyed to see you, so brimming with love and affection that they literally ran to greet you? A dog will do that for you--ten, twenty, thirty times a day.
— Lionel Fisher
There's a world of difference between a dog that is off the leash and a dog that is trained to be off the leash.
— Don  Sullivan
It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you’ll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn’t want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.
— Danielle Steel, Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love
Lucky ain’t a puppy no more and he don’t bark for just any old reason. It takes a mailman, a squirrel, a car, a bird, a blowing leaf, or a tumbling scrap of paper to get him stirred up now.
— Sandra Kring, Carry Me Home
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Rosemary Tree
Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.
— Danielle Steel, Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love
I had a dream about you last night... in it, we wondered why dogs come in packs but you can't pack dogs.
— Marshall Ramsay, Dreaming is for lovers
I don’t much care for people—never have, never will. I got my reasons. I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right and he’ll treat you right—he’ll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against them.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
Because no one ever listens to the dog.
— Dori Hillestad Butler, The Case of the Library Monster
Sometimes I think I like dogs more than I like humans. The only time a dog has ever betrayed me... was by dying.
— José N. Harris, Mi Vida
The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.
— M.K. Clinton, Showstoppers
I knelt down and hugged the furry monster for a while. If it was too tight, Ghost didn't seem to mind. He wagged his tail and whined a little, sensing the hurt that I felt. Dogs are truly the best of companions. You don't need to explain. They know as much as they need to know, and they are loyal no matter what sins you've committed.
— Jonathan Maberry, The King of Plagues
I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.
— Irvine Welsh, If You Liked School, You'll Love Work
MANY DOGS RUN WILD IN THE CITY.SOME ARE ABANDONED BY THEIR OWNERSAND OTHERS ARE BORN TO LOST DOGS.STRAYS HAVE A LIMITED LIFE EXPECTANCYEVEN WHEN THEY BAND TOGETHER IN PACKS.THEY ARE PREY TO DISEASE, PARASITES,WEATHER AND AUTOMOBILES.THEY TEND TO BE FRIGHTENED AND VICIOUS.THEY ARE UNABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVESOR ANYONE ELSE.
— Jenny Holzer
Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.
— Louis Sabin
Dogs are owned for their loyalty, but men are owned only because of their stupidity.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Dogs are masters of creating emotionally safe space just by being themselves. ... it is as if something deep within our souls resonates with their energy, their unwavering unconditional love and unbridled joy to be in our presence, their undivided loyalty, and complete trust in us. Dogs make us feel special, and teach us by example to relish simple pleasures and live totally in the moment. They teach us there is only now and only who you are, who you are with, and what you are doing right then–andwhat could be better than to sniff the wind and be in the company of those you love?
— Val Silver, Rescue Me: Tales of Rescuing the Dogs Who Became Our Teachers, Healers, and Always Faithful Friends
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man
— George Jean Nathan
She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favorite dog (and, no, she would never have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn't understand how attached one could be to a dog.)
— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.
— Gregor Collins, The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
They're not poodles, they're art.
— Rachael Leigh
Before Elfrida Phipps left London for good and moved to the country, she made a trip to Battersea Dogs' Home, and returned with a canine companion. It took a good, and heart-rending, half hour of searching, but as soon as she saw him, sitting very close to the bars of his kennel and gazing up at her with dark and melting eyes, she knew he was the one. She did not want a large animal, nor did she relish the idea of a yapping lap dog. This one was exactly the right size. Dog size.
— Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice
Dogs are lonesome creatures who needs a someone that will love him for eternity, Once they've found the one, He will protect it, believing that he is the only one who could accept him
— Ammiel Josiah Monterde
See with your heart, not just your eyes
— Linda M. Hueftlein, Through Charlie's Eyes
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?
— Mary Oliver, Dog Songs
And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old—or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.
— Mary Oliver, Dog Songs
Because we need each other. We complete each other. Duty works both ways. Love needs a beloved. Loyalty needs two to be loyalty. Fidelity is nothing without someone to be faithful to. Every dog needs a human, and every human needs a dog.
— Angelo Dirks
I'm not alone," said the boy. "I've got a puppy.
— Jane Thayer, The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy
Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
It does no good to bark at the television,I said. I’ve tried it too. So he stopped.
— Mary Oliver, House of Light
The big one was at least cute, and as annoying as she was, you couldn't get mad at a golden retriever.
— Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Finally, especially in the case of medical-response canines and those that serve handlers with invisible disabilities, it's not merely the necessity of the dog that's questioned but also the existance of the disability itself. And for these partnerships, some of the greatest problems arise.
— Susannah Charleson, The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing
I like being on my own. I mean, I'm sure a Pack’s best for some dogs, but I've walked alone since I left my Pup Pack. I can look after myself.
— Erin Hunter, The Empty City
Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If I had a bad day, which, now that I ran my own life, was a helluva lot less than the old days, I sat on the floor with Houdini, placed a hand on his broad head, and soaked up endless doggy wonder. A full stomach, a well-chewed toy, a soft couch—through a dog’s eyes, that was a true glory that couldn’t be matched, the only heaven in existence. I missed the furball, missed him like crazy.
— Rob Thurman, All Seeing Eye