A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
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How many pets would you consider too many?
If I wanted a puppy for my birthday, would you adopt a purebred from a breeder or a mix from a shelter?
If your girlfriend loves animals, why don’t you buy her one as a gift? It could be a kitten or pup. If you would like to gift her something that is easier to be taken care of, you can buy her two fishes with fish bowls.
He wants to live together. When a man wants to share his space voluntarily and not only as a way to save money, he’s thinking toward the future. This can also happen if he suggests opening a bank account together or getting a pet.
Get a pet (that you can responsibly take care of).
Allow the dog or the cat onto the bed with you.
All my dogs talked, and so they talk in the book. I’ve always had a dog, usually two — once four, which was one too many. Three could find me on the couch, one in my lap and one to either side.
Get a pet. Pets help because you can no longer focus completely on yourself. You learn to give and take, and to love unconditionally.
This animal had touched our souls and taught us some of the most important lessons of our lives.
I could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus it's preciousness. We take it for granted, but it is fragile, precarious, uncertain able to cease at any instant without notice. I was reminded of what should be obvious but too often is not, that each today, each hour and minute, is worth cherish…
If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says.
Maybe he held the secret for a good life. Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness.
He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.
In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.
'You know all that stuff we’ve always said about you?’ I whispered. ‘What a total pain you are? Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it for a minute, Marley.’ He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that no one ever had. I wanted him to hear it before he…
A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
Owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.