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Quotes About Canine

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
~ Patrick Ness
It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.
~ Robin McKinley
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
~ Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.
~ Meghan Daum
I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
~ Ira Glass
Un chien loup, c'est pas un loup
~ Fabrice Magnier
No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.
~ Cesar Millan
It's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.
~ Jon Katz
The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn't 'Son of Ann'... It comes from 'Canis' - as in 'canine' - as in 'dog!' My name - Rory McCann - means Rory Hound, Rory Wolfhound.
~ Rory McCann
The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state the dog is full of love. I've also proved, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest.
~ Ogden Nash
We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.
~ Rue McClanahan
I've grown up with dogs and love dogs.
~ Stephanie Zimbalist
miles a day, which is illegal in most towns. Even if it's not illegal, it's dangerous. So you have to figure out substitute behaviors that keep your dog happy
~ Temple Grandin
Receava, particularmente, a forma mais sutil da gratidão, que se torna carinho canino; não queria que a liberdade, a única roupa que caía bem na Maga, se perdesse numa feminilidade diligente.
~ Julio Cortazar
I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.
~ Christina Milian
The dog rose on his hind legs in front of Philip Philipovich and performed obeisance to him.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
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
Huge Kobe fan growing up. My dog's name is Kobe.
~ Manny Machado
Then, that memorably powerful look into my eyes told me something more: compared to dogs, wolves are grown-ups. He was not asking for help, head down, forehead wrinkled, as a dog might: "Is this right? What do you want?" Instead, head high, gaze level, he was assessing me, like a poker player: "Are you in or out?" Judging that I was in, he made his move; and we both won. (p.6)
~ Karen Pryor
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.
~ Karen Russell
A dog has got human eyes.
~ Karl Pilkington
She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.
~ Kate Atkinson
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I looked at the canine companion. "Me cookies. You stay.
~ Ilona Andrews