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, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin” — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“A lion is not a lion if it is only free to eat, to sleep and to copulate. It deserves to be free to… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“What still frightens me is that society is fickle. There was a time when nobody believed in the reality of abuse, and now it… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“Voltaire responded that, on the contrary, vivisection showed that the dog has the same organes de sentiment that a human has. "Answer me, you… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
