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, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he continued to sleep every night for fourteen years.
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… - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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…
- 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
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… - 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…
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
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…
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
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. - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.
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
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…
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
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…
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
Dogs love us not only because we feed them, walk them, or groom them, or protect them, but because we are fun. How astonishing!
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