Ian Dunbar Quotes

Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them.

My Rottweiler really don't talk much. He just bites.

I love my dogs and I give them affection all the time but it has to be at the right time or they get confused.

The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.

We breed dogs to be more social than the wolf. There is very interesting research that has been done with a wolf and a domestic dog. If you have a tamed wolf and you have him sit in front of the experimenter or stand in front of his master and his two dishes, one to the right, one to the left – so that the dog or wolf see the food put in the left hand dish but the owner points to the right – the domesticated will go where owner points, whereas the the wolf goes right where he saw the meat thing put. In other words, in a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.

Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the Dachshund and why he can't be trained and shouldn't be. I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a Dachshund to heed my slightest command. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. He even disobeys me when I instruct him in something he wants to do.

Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.

My dog learned how to beg by watching me through the bedroom door.

We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

I think pets are great. They're better than kids, that's for sure.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!

I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

My dog didn't like me very much. My first dog, Dmitri, was a poodle. I used to think Dmitri was something I could play with and ride. I tried to ride a poodle. And then he bit me.

You have no control over your cat! You can't say to your cat, "Cat, heel! Stay! Wait! Lie down! Roll over!" 'Cause the cat's just gonna be sitting there going, "Interesting words ... have you finished?" While you're shouting all this to your cat, your dog's next to you, going ... [mimes obeying all commands] "What the hell are you doing? I'm talking to the cat!" "Oh, I'm sorry!"

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

You always hear about the guy who was raised by wolves. You never hear about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves. The problem is, you have a non-wolf imparting wolf teachings.

Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.

I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.

My dogs have never been good at things like "sit," "stay," or even "come." I think that we've given the tourists a few laughs, especially when the dogs hit the end of their leashes hard enough to drag Gloria down the street.

I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.