Canine Quote by Kathy Reichs

“Humankind is drawn to dogs because they are so like ourselves—bumbling, affectionate, confused, easily disappointed, eager to be amused, grateful for kindness and the…

— Patricia B. McConnell

“Interpreting dog behavior through the lens of wolf behavior is even worse than anthropomorphizing: it’s a human anthropomorphizing wolf behavior and using that flawed…

— Gregory Berns

“           •   On dogs: dogs are cleverer than we think. Everything in their world is indexed and catalogued, taking no one and nothing for granted and…

— Patric Juillet

“The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind.”

— S.T. Joshi

“We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in…

— Karen Armstrong

“Dogs (like rats) are multitalented but they are also not very smart the way humans are. A recent book, devoted to the intelligence of…

— Jean Donaldson

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

— Robert Breault

“Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of…

— Brad Watson

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

— Thom Jones

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss…

— Caroline Knapp

“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