Dogs don't want to know about every other dog you ever had. Dogs don't let magazine articles guide their lives. Dogs have no use for flowers, cards or jewelry. Dogs don't borrow your shirts. Dogs never want foot rubs.
Dogs enjoy heavy petting in public.
Dogs find you amusing when you're drunk. Dogs can't talk. Dogs seldom outlive you. A poor Jamaican fisherman was shipwrecked on a desert island. He had lost his boat, his livelihood and possessions.