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If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life." – Roger Caras, author of A Dog Is Listening: The Way Some of Our Closest Friends View Us You don't need to be buying all these fancy expensive toys and treats and goodness knows what that are available. Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate." – Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst Dogs can innately sense when you are sad or struggling with something. They will find a way to cuddle up to you, rest their head on you, or generally find a way to be close to you during these times," said Richardson. 9. They steal your clothes and carry them around Clive: Oh, just be with your dog, people! Don’t leave your poor dog alone. It’s funny we should end on that note. I really feel that very strongly. My dog doesn’t need me to talk to her or play with her all the time, but she wants to know where I am and be able to just touch base with me from time to time. I feel that so strongly.
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them." – Dodie Smith, author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach." – Moby, American singer/songwriter and animal activist
As someone who loves dogs and lives with 3 of them, I have read a LOT of books about dogs so I can understand them better. A lot of the material in this book will be familiar to those who also read about dogs or watch specials about them on PBS (e.g. the 'who stays longer in a circle" experiment comparing wolves and dogs, or the breeding of foxes for tameness). However, the discussion of genetics and oxytocin receptors was new to me and fascinating. One of these geneticists published a paper about a decade ago now, Bridget vonHoldt, where she compared the genetic code of wolves to the genetic code of dogs, and she looked to see any place where changes had occurred over the thousands of years since dogs came into being. And that paper contained a hint that there was a section of the dog DNA that showed evidence of having changed from wolves to dogs, and that in human beings if you had changes in that part of the DNA then you would have this syndrome called Williams Syndrome. Now Williams Syndrome is very, very rare, and it involves changes to about 28 genes, so a lot of genes are affected, and it has a wide range of impacts. People with Williams Syndrome have strange facial structure, they have heart defects, they have intellectual problems, they have a whole range of things. But the most intriguing to me was that people with Williams Syndrome are described in the medical literature as showing exaggerated gregariousness. In other words, they are exceptionally friendly. They very readily make new friendships. Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished." – Dean Koontz, author of Whispers
When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'" – Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book As a lifelong dog-lover, dog-companion, and I've trained a dog to work with vulnerable children alongside me in a clinical setting, I looked forward to reading this book. But I was disappointed.Dogs' lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There's such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price." – Dean Koontz, author of False Memory
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