Behavior Quote by Amy Hempel

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

— Cesar Millan

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal…

— Jon Katz

Dogs want to be people. That's what their lives are about. They don't like being a dog. They're with people all the time, they…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no…

— Garth Stein

Some dogs act like people and some people act like dogs.

— Tablo

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

— Deb Caletti

Dogs are a habit, I think.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

— Gertrude Stein

“Dogs are not our playthings. They are sentient beings with their own opinions and feelings. We expect them to fit into our lives, for…

— Beverley Courtney

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen…

— Lynn Coady

I am never going to write about dogs again. You can write about Islam, you can write about sexuality, but no, not dogs.

— Paul Bloom

“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.”

— Jodi Picoult