The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
Interpretation
Dogs fear abandonment when their owners leave them alone.
This quote highlights the deep bond between dogs and their owners, emphasizing how dogs experience a profound fear of being left alone. It reveals the emotional dependency that pets have on their human companions and the anxiety that accompanies separation, reminding us of the loyalty and attachment that define the pet-owner relationship.
In practice
During a speech at an animal welfare event where the bond between pets and owners is celebrated.
Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.
When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.
Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.
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