Quotes About Canine

When Lad died, in September of 1918, I collected the ten or twelve yarns I had written about him, and I tried to sell the collection as a book under the name, Lad: A Dog. I was told that there had been no worthwhile dog books since Bob, Son Of Battle and The Call Of The Wild and that the public did not want that kind of fiction. There was no demand; there was no possible profit. Any volume with a canine hero was foredoomed to fall flat.

Deene had a refreshing ignorance concerning collies; and indeed of nineteen dog-breeds out of twenty. But he had an equally refreshing faith in himself to give wise decisions on any and all canine matters. So, obligingly, he consented to judge collies at Greenwold in addition to his beloved and ultra-tiny Chihuahuas. A similar thing has been done too often to call for comment.

I do not pretend to say whether or not dogs have a language of their own. Personally, I think they have, and a very comprehensive one, too. But I cannot prove it. No dog student, however, will deny that two dogs communicate their wishes to each other in some way by (or during) the swift contact of noses.

The marines even gave their canine comrades a military rank one notch above their handlers to reinforce that the dogs receive and deserve respect.

Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

My dog's name is Tucker, and his DNA is unidentifiable and suspect.

I said hello to the poodle.

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

If daylight belongs to the dogs, then we cats are creatures of the night. We are the feline yin to the canine yang.

Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move...the combination "lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance." In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it.

A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

All I have to do is just look into a dog's eyes. The eyes of a Saint Bernard, an English mastiff, a shar-pei, a Jack Russell terrier, a French bulldog, a corgi, a pug. A lot of the time I think all you have to do is look into any dog's eyes, and there'll you'll find honesty; there, I think so much of the time, you'll find the truth.

I have two poodles - I'm a poodle person.

Maggie jumped to a full alert, her eyes locked on the greasy cube. Scott threw it hard, and Maggie sprinted after it. The chunk bounced and skipped through the grass thirty yards away. Scott didn't know if she could see it, but canine eyes were far more sensitive to motion than human eyes, and her nose would do the rest. Maggie's

La fedeltà di un cane è un dono prezioso che impone obblighi morali non meno impegnativi dell'amicizia con un essere umano. Il legame con un cane fedele è altrettanto 'eterno' quanto possono esserlo, in genere, i vincoli fra esseri viventi su questa terra.

Il principiante che non comprende ancora molto dell'animo del cane non non compri mai un cane con un lungo pedigree. Insomma, per dirla nel modo più brutale, le probabilità che il cane sia nervoso, pazzoide, psichicamente tarato, sono enormemente minori in un bastardo che in un discendente da otto antenati premiati.

There was just one exception to this general rule: the dog. The dog was the first animal domesticated by Homo sapiens, and this occurred before the Agricultural Revolution. Experts disagree about the exact date, but we have incontrovertible evidence of domesticated dogs from about 15,000 years ago. They may have joined the human pack thousands of years earlier.

A dog's love is forever. We expect infidelity from one another; we marvel at this one's ability to hold that one's interest for fifty, sixty years; perhaps some of us feel a secret contempt for monogamy even as we extol it, wishing parole for its weary participants. But dogs do not receive our sympathy or our suspicion—from dogs we presume an eternal adoration.

The red caravan, picked out with black and yellow, is ours,' said Dick. 'The blue one, picked out in black and yellow, is yours and Anne's.' 'Woof,' said Timmy at once. 'Oh, sorry – yours too, Timmy,' said Dick at once, and everyone chuckled.

Si les hommes ont la naïveté de croire en Dieu, les chiens ont la naïveté de croire en l'homme.

One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were.

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.