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Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that's well known and it's obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don't separate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separate their human and dog natures.
Sep 30, 2025
I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.
First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.
Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
One cat just leads to another.
People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever-in case I need him. And I expect I will-as I always have. He is just my dog.
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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