If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.
. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.
You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.
The first book was called 'Oh My Dog,' and it's kind of a whole huge resource book on when you go adopt a dog to the dog's final days.
The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.
I've been surrounded by dogs my whole life. I got a golden retriever a year after I was born.
I don't want any dog to be put down.
