What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those ex….

Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent ….

We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but do….

The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper….

Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no.".

Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our live….

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core..

Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, an….

Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, th….

Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended wi….

After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel mor….

Dogs love us not only because we feed them, walk them, or groom them, or protect them, but because we are fun. How astonishing!.

Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel..

Dogs never lie about love..

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us..