“One of the most enduring friendships in history – dogs and their people, people and their dogs.”
– Terry Kay, author
“These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala.
Well, of course, I don’t resent attacks, and my family don’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent them.
You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I’d left him behind on an Aleutian island and had sent a destroyer back to find him—at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars—his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since.
I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself … But I think I have a right to resent, to object, to libelous statements about my dog.”
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President
Background: During the 1944 presidential campaign, Republicans alleged that Mr Roosevelt had left his Scottie dog, Fala, behind in the Aleutian Islands and sent a U.S. destroyer to collect him (at taxpayers’ cost). President Roosevelt chose to respond during a speech to the International Teamsters Union.
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“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, in the The Cat That Walked By Himself
“What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.”
– Oprah Winfrey, actress, writer, talk show host, philanthropist
“I don’t believe, despite all the gurus in the pet section of the bookstore and on TV, that there is a single way to train every dog, any more than that there is one way to buy a dog or put one down. I think this idea causes much grief for dog lovers, as it does for dog choosers.
– Jon Katz, author
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“Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.”
– Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States
“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.”
– Kristan Higgins, author
“Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don’t have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.”
– Oprah Winfrey, actress, writer, talk show host, philanthropist
“There’s nothing like a wagging tail to make you feel better”
– Dr. J. Michael McFarland, DVM, DABVP, Group Director of US Companion Animal Marketing at Zoetis
“I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better.”
– George Bird Evans, dog breeder (Old Hemlock line of English Setters ), author, artist (28 December 1906 – 5 May 1998)
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