Dog Quotes

If you want a friend, adopt a dog.

Dog Quotes

"Hounds follow those who feed them." ~ Otto von Bismarck

"I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do." ~ Cesar Millan

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." ~ Groucho Marx

"Everything I know I learned from dogs." ~ Nora Roberts

"Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." ~ Franklin P. Jones

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras

"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." ~ Charles De Gaulle

"It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog." ~ Charles Darwin

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." ~ Christopher Morley

"Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had." ~ Thom Jones

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment to animals." ~ Immanuel Kant

"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." ~ Edward Hoagland

"The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother—and they'll settle for a puppy every time." ~ Winston Pendleton

"Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished." ~ Dean Koontz

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

"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons." ~ Will Rogers

Did You Know?

In North America alone, millions of dogs are killed each year simply because there are too many for the number of homes available.
Purchasing dogs from commercial sources ensures the continued death of other dogs waiting for homes in our animal control facilities or shelters.
Dog adopted from an animal control facility or shelter will not cost any more to feed and are unlikely to require any greater care than purebred dogs.
Adopting a dog from an animal control facility or shelter will save a life. Dogs from these sources will not cost any more to feed and are unlikely to require any greater care than purebred dogs and they will be equally as loving, lovable and compatible with your family.
If for some reason you are set on having a particular breed of dog, there are many active breed rescue groups which concentrate on finding homes for existing dogs of virtually any breed.
At many of the animal control facilities or shelters, a substantial percentage of the dogs available are purebreds.
Animal control facilities or shelters and many active breed rescue groups can provide you with options to find a dog you want which do not involve promoting the continuation of dog overpopulation.
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.