Dogs And Humans Quotes

“...a dog ages seven years for each one of ours. Just a rule of thumb, surely, but at least a way to figure, and what did that mean to a dog time wise? If I came back at six to feed her, that would be about twelve hours of my time. Would that be eighty four hours for her? Three and a half days?”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“And it is very true that the most tender, complicated, most generous part of our being blossoms without any effort, when it comes to the love of a dog.”
― Maira Kalman, Beloved Dog

“And yet, Yaichi was well aware that dogs had a special relationship to humans. Maybe it was God who sent them, or maybe Buddha. Who knew? But he knew they had been dispatched for the benefit of our foolish species.
They understood the human heart and were attuned to it in a way no other creature was.”
― Seishū Hase, The Boy and the Dog

“He was allowed a room here with Kane because of a special international military passport that declared the dog to be a working animal. Kane even had his own rank — major, one station higher than Tucker. All military war dogs were ranked higher than their handlers. It allowed any abuse of the dogs to be a court martial offense: for striking a superior officer.”
― James Rollins, Tracker

“The first day we met, she kept on looking at me with her tender and sensitive eyes. And from that day, whenever she and I met, I have felt strange sensations erupt inside my heart. She would come from wherever she would be to welcome me at my apartment. She gets into tumultuous joy when she sees me in the garden area, where I sit in the afternoon to sunbath in the Sun. And in the evenings when I make coffee for myself, she stays nearby to give me company. Leela truly loves me.

Sometimes during my evening online classes, she suddenly starts barking loudly. And I tell my students "She is Leela. The doggie who stays near my apartment. Kindly wait for 1 or 2 mins and she will be quite.”
― Avijeet Das

“For the dog, colour doesn't matter, reputation doesn't matter, wealth doesn't matter. Dogs see us all as equals. They live in the present in a world of emotion. They know if you are true and trustworthy, and what they care about most is the love you have in your heart and the kindness you show them.”
― Noel Fitzpatrick, Listening to the Animals Becoming The Supervet / How Animals Saved My Life Being the Supervet

“Around here people don’t walk their dogs—dogs walk their people.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods over-thrown and his altars crumbling; but to the wolf and the wild dog that have come in to crouch at man's feet, this grief has never come. Unlike man, whose gods are of the unseen and the overguessed, vapors and mists of fancy eluding the garmenture of reality, wandering wraiths of desired goodness and power, intangible outcropings of self into the realm of spirit--unlike man, the wolf and the wild dog that have come in to the fire find their gods in the living flesh, solid to the touch, occupying earth-space and requiring time for the accomplishment of their ends and their existence. No effort of faith is neccessary to believe in such a god; no effort of will can possibly induce disbelief in such a god. There is no getting awy from it. There it stands, on its own two hind legs, club in hand, immensely potential, passionate and wrathful and loving, god and mystery and power all wrapped up and around by flesh that bleeds when it is torn and that is good to eat like any flesh.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“Guardians may feel panicked themselves when faced with the idea of working on separation anxiety without using food. So start small. Beginning with small increments of alone time, without a food toy, helps get the dog over the initial hump of not having a distraction; it also can yield the most lasting results. Just know that when I say small, I mean tiny. We can start with even 1 second — essentially, the guardian leaving and immediately returning — and create a series of repetitions of this activity. This repetition will lead to the dog eventually getting bored with all the brief comings and goings. Once bored, those 1-second absences can stretch to 2- or even 5-second absences, and the repetitions can proceed at the increased duration.”
― Malena Demartini-Price

“Dogs are good people, humans are bad dogs.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“And it certainly seemed ethically questionable, the relationship between humans and dogs, both of whom—on the scale of intelligence that covered every species in the universe—would have been somewhere in the middle, not too far apart.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“Dogs are like ex-girlfriends; they like to follow you everywhere, keep following you, and love sniffing you.”
― Avijeet Das

“Dogs are like ex-girlfriends; they like to follow you everywhere, keep stalking you, and love sniffing you.”
― Avijeet Das

“Words and thoughts not share via orally or via the written word die with the author for all eternity.”
― David Lasaine

“It's funny how an ice-cream cone can change a persons life."
Mosie Bitmen~ Dog Island”
― ann m. andrashie, Dog Island

“A dog more than the canine animal. A dog is everywhere you go together, every living creature you meet along the way, and the human you become with your canine.”
― Rona Maynard

“Some things about being human can't be learned from your own kind..”
― Rona Maynard, Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World

“You know that feeling when you kiss your dog's butthole goodnight but it tastes like your uncle's balls?
This means that your dog is family. Feed it to your deformed baby with a side of apple sauce and Chromebook salad.”
― John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett, With Personal Recollections of Each

“For the dog, colour doesn't matter, reputation doesn't matter, wealth doesn't matter. Dogs see us all as equals. They live in the present and in a world of emotion. They know if you are true and trustworthy, and what they care about most if the love you have in your heart and the kindness you show them.”
― Noel Fitzpatrick, Listening to the Animals: Becoming the Supervet

“I don't believe in 'ownership' of a sentient life - I think we undertake volitional guardianship and that this bringing forth can be one of the most rewarding and reciprocally loving relationships that a human being can ever experience.”
― Noel Fitzpatrick, Listening to the Animals: Becoming the Supervet

“Research has shown that dogs and cats can feel happy or sad, excited or disappointed, depressed or elated, and that these feelings may be similar to ours, even if they cannot express them in the same way that we do.”
― Noel Fitzpatrick, Listening to the Animals: Becoming the Supervet

“You can love a dog like you loved people when you were a child. Without fear. Only this happens for opposite reasons: as a child, you love without knowledge and thus the threat of death; with a dog, you love despite death's ever-presence. Because each dog (except, perhaps, your last dog) will die before you, you can love them fully and accept their coming death fully, both simultaneously. Not can: have to. The pairing of these truths forces you into the present tense; and so, in the meantime, joy.”
― Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ingenue

“I find dogs better than humans. I like them more, in fact. Is there something the matter with me? Could be. May be, at heart, I too am a dog. At least I am not inhumane like most humans. What say you, dawgs?”
― fakeer ishavardas

“His mom understood -- she was fluent in Snort!”
― Samantha Childs, Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love

“He walks over and gives me his whole head in my hands, making eye contact so hard it feels primitive, like we're the first human and wolf to meet.”
― Chloe Shaw

“And some part of me has always known that the love of a dog was something I needed, no less than I needed food in my belly or warm clothes in the winter. I am the end result of this pairwise coevolution of our ancestors, both human and wolf: I needed this love to survive.”
― Sophie Hicks, Fighting Freud: A memoir exploring anger, intergenerational trauma and narcissistic abuse

“NEVER MIND THE DOG, BEWARE OF THE OWNER!”
― Stephen King, Desperation

“Many dogs with separation anxiety won’t eat when left alone — a phenomenon commonly referred to as “alone-time anorexia” — although that’s not what I’m most concerned about here. Even some separation anxiety dogs learn to love their interactive feeding toy, and the anticipation of getting it when left alone can be of value by easing the transition. Many separation anxiety dogs, however, quickly recognize the toy as just another cue for a scary absence and learn to dislike the appearance of the food item. For these dogs, one might call it “discomfort” food.”
― Malena Demartini-Price

“As trainers, we regularly work with food as reinforcement for desired behavior, so it truly feels strange not to use some sort of edible reward or feeding toy during training. I have found, however, that straight desensitization is incredibly powerful in separation anxiety cases. Time and time again, I have seen dogs realize success through the process of systematic desensitization. I urge you not to get stuck or create a false sense of security, as so many trainers and guardians do, by providing “comfort” food. Perhaps if we more accurately called it “distraction” food, we would rely on it less.”
― Malena Demartini-Price

“In gundog heelwork, you won't score points for any trotting or fanciness. In fact, People would probably laugh! Meanwhile, gundogs — especially retrievers — must maintain heel position not for minutes, but for hours. Often all day.

Gundog heelwork is comparatively low energy. (Because we want the dog to conserve energy for hunting and retrieving.) And the concept of bursting-with-energy heelwork would be a bit risky to most gundog trainers: It hints at a lack of It hints at a lack of steadiness — a heinous crime. Instead, gundog trainers would rather see a lot of self-restraint at heel.”
― Jo Laurens, Force-Free Gundog Training: The Fundamentals for Success