“And finally, thanks to my dear Moochie, muse and companion, the best dog any writer ever had…Moochie, I hope that wherever you are, you can catch every cat you chase, that you can get to every chicken wing you find, and that nobody complains when you wake them up in the middle of the night and pretend you have to go out just so you can nudge them out of the warm spot in the bed. I was so lucky to be your person.”
– Author Jennifer Weiner in the Acknowledgements of her book, The Summer Place
“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
– Elizabeth Taylor, actress (1932-2011)
“To date, there are no specific disease modifying anti-osteoarthritic treatments. Current management of patients with osteoarthritis aims to improve patient and societal outcomes by reducing symptoms and improving function. Clinical guidelines broadly recommend the provision of effective and individualised information, combined with non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions, and when these are insufficient, surgery.”
Kloppenburg M., et al. “Osteoarthritis” Lancet 2025
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H Jackson Brown was an American author who is best known for Life’s Little Instruction Book.
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“There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.”
– Mira Grant, author
“Not everyone is in a position to help other animals, but everybody is in the position not to harm them.”
-Anthony Douglas Williams, author
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“Well, then they can race around the park, and they can race around the beach, but they won’t be racing on a track and getting themselves injured to the degree that they are getting themselves injured now.”
– Rt Hon Winston Peters, Minister of Racing, in the press conference of 10 December 2024 where it was announced that New Zealand will ban commercial greyhound racing effective 1 August 2026 on animal welfare grounds
“In the eyes of a dog, a Christmas tree is a giant, gloriously decorated fire hydrant.”
– Unknown
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