Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
I am joy in a wooly coat, come to dance into your life, to make you laugh! Julie Church
My most satisfying aspect of animal training is a very simple moment. After a show when I leave the stage door... and there is a crowd gathered, sometimes I hear someone say the following and it makes it all worthwhile. "How did they make that dog do that?" I smile because I am the only "they" and I do it with love.
William Berloni, dog trainer, about transforming a severely abused dog from the pound into Sandy in the Broadway production of Annie.
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
Stanley Coren, dog psychologist
Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.
Michael W. Fox
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life. They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return.
Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.
Marjorie Garber
