emotional bond with pets Quotes

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the prison sentence, having something taken away from me for three years. I want a dog just for the sake of my kids, but also me. I miss my companions.

I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy.

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.