A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days
when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his
old way."
(Mary Carolyn Davies)
“We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this
to us in the uncritical canine attachment.”
(George Eliot)
“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”
(Max Eastman)
“I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the
silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.”
(Doris Day)
"No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."
(Will Rogers)
“Dogs are miracles with paws.”
(Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy)
"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!"
(Theophile Gautier)
"There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear."
(Rudyard Kipling)
"The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and
death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said
— yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart."
(Willie Morris - 'My Dog Skip')
"I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about
children — they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a
mourning period that lasted for months."
(Mary Tyler Moore)
"I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing
a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to
live double that time?"
(Sir Walter Scott)
"Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them; filling an emptiness we don't even know we have."
(Thom Jones)
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” – Jack Lemmon
Solly, Gonzo, Daisy-Mae, Ebony, Jerry, Tigger, Bonnie, Suzy, Cleo, Spike, Sooty, and Tibby – dazzling lights that will never fade. Adored, cherished, I was privileged to know you all. Until we meet again, my beautiful babies. Bowls of love and cuddles, your ever-loving, devoted Mummy xxxxxxxxxx
