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Quotes About Canine

Canine homeland security at work.
~ Laura Childs
The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.
~ Barbara Woodhouse
bitch n. 1 a female dog, wolf, fox, or otter. 2 INFORMAL a spiteful or unpleasant woman. BLACK SLANG a woman (used in a non-derogatory sense). 3 (a bitch) INFORMAL a difficult or unpleasant situation or thing: working the night shift is a bitch. 4 INFORMAL a complaint: my big bitch is that there's nothing new here. v. [no obj.] INFORMAL make spitefully critical comments: everybody was bitching about their colleagues. Old English bicce, of Germanic
~ Angus Stevenson
I spend more time with Whisper than I do with anybody else. I chose her when she was three or four days old, I've had her since she was nine weeks. She's a mini Australian cattle dog; cattle dogs need to have a job, and her job is just walking after me.
~ Dean Potter
The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
~ Louis Leakey
I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
Even Mongo liked him, although Mongo likes everybody. (Also Mongo was so thrilled with himsel for staying in the dog bed till I'd released him that nothing was going to blow his mood.)
~ Robin McKinley
Luka loved the sheriff's department. He moved in a stiff-legged trot, all keen eyes and pricked-up ears. Retired police officer, returning for duty.
~ Lisa Gardner
I have a lab filled with millions of dollars' worth of equipment, and I can tell you none of it works as well as a good dog's nose. I've witnessed canines hitting on hundred-year-old remains. What they even smell, none of us can tell you. At that point, there's no organic matter left; the bone is little more than a dried sponge. But the dogs always know.
~ Lisa Gardner
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
~ Aldous Huxley
It was a prolonged, mournful howl, into which Cyril put all the sorrow of the canine condition: a howl that seemed to express deep nostalgia for the woods, for the snowy wastes of his lupine ancestors' ancient homelands, for all the sense of loss and separation that a dog feels when his master, his reason for living, his sun, is no longer there.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
Nathan said nothing for a moment. Then, < There's nothing in my fur, is there? > Simon gave the other Wolf a careful look. "No boogers." < Good. I hate washing boogers out of fur. > "Who doesn't ? What comes out of human noses is disgusting.
~ Anne Bishop
Is it a boy or a girl?' she asked delicately. 'That dog? That dog's a boy.' 'It's a bitch,' said Tom decisively. 'Here's your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.
~ Robin McKinley
chubby yellow Lab
~ Lisa Scottoline
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.
~ Rosamund Pilcher
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
~ Dean Koontz
BARKY THE BARKING DOG SHOW
~ Andy Griffiths
No staring into your puppy's eyes, because dogs view prolonged glares as confrontational, not instructional. Instead, keep looking over their head.
~ Sarah Hodgson
My dog's a gentleman.
~ Todd Phillips
I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.
~ Martin Compston
I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
~ Halston Sage
I read that all dogs have wolf DNA in them, which seemed preposterous because my dog, Tucker, is... afraid of plastic bags blowing in the wind. I thought, 'How can Tucker have wolf in him? How can this be?' So I started researching it.
~ W. Bruce Cameron