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

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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…

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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 …

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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…

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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…

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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…

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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…

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson