Quotes on Dog Training

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.

It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.