“Heaven Is People Smiling and Dogs Playing”
– Stephen Huneck, artist, author and founder of Dog Mountain, 1948 – 2010
“An immaculate house is a wonderful and elegant thing, but it can also be an empty and a cold thing. I’ll take mine with flying paws and whisking tails and eager loving looks from dark earnest eyes. When the children go away to school, and get married and move away, there are so many little quiet corners in a house. A bevy of Cockers and an Irish or two livens things up considerably. It is hard to be melancholy with somebody playing leapfrog around the room.”
Glady Taber, author (1899 – 1980)
In 1859, Florence Nightingale wrote, “A small pet is an excellent companion for the sick, the long chronic cases especially.”
Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing, 1820 – 1910
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Kathleen Crisley, Fear-Free certified professional and specialist in dog massage, rehabilitation and nutrition/food therapy, The Balanced Dog, Christchurch, New Zealand
“In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.”
– James Thurber, cartoonist, (1894 – 1961)
“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.”
– Sigmund Freud
“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”
– Edward Hoagland, author
“One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.”
– Chinese proverb
“The final piece of verbal activism is this: we need to speak out in the defense of companion animals. We are accountable for what we say and also for what we do not say. Silence is a form of acquiescence. Qui tacet consentire videtur. He who is silent is taken to agree.”
-Jessica Pierce, author of Run, Spot, Run
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