After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more,… — 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
