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quote[0]=""[My dog] can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings."
- Gerald Solomon, US Congressman"
quote[1]=""A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion."
- Washington Irving, (1783 - 1859) US short-story writer, essayist"
quote[2]=""A dog believes you are what you think you are."
- jane swan"
quote[3]=""A dog has one aim in life. To bestow his heart."
- j r ackerley"
quote[4]=""A dog has the soul of a philosopher."
- Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.) Greek philosopher"
quote[5]=""A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog."
- Haitian Farmer"
quote[6]=""A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such."
- John Holmes"
quote[7]=""A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk."
- O. A. Battista"
quote[8]=""A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
- Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist"
quote[9]=""A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
- Robert Benchley (1889-1945) U.S. humorous writer"
quote[10]=""A dog's best friend is his illiteracy."
- Ogden Nash (1902-71) American writer, poet"
quote[11]=""A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
- Ogden Nash (1902-71) American writer, poet"
quote[12]=""A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling 'Hey, come back here with my breast!'"
- Linda Ellerbee"
quote[13]=""A good dog deserves a good bone."
- Ben Jonson (1572-1637) English dramatist and poet"
quote[14]=""A heart beat, at my feet."
- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) U.S. author"
quote[15]=""A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel."
- Portuguese Proverb"
quote[16]=""A lost dog is a sad sight. They have a particular desperate gait, a confused urgency, eyes too anxious to respond to any call. They move fast through unknown territory, hoping against hope to hear a familiar voice, scent familiar ground - and all the while moving deeper and deeper into desolation."
- pam brown"
quote[17]=""A man may smile and bid you hail
Yet wish you to the devil;
But when a good dog wags his tail,
You know he's on the level."
- Anonymous"
quote[18]=""A well-trained dog will make no attempt to eat your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it."
- helen thomson"
quote[19]=""Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
- Mordecai Siegal"
quote[20]=""Actor John Barrymore became an eccentric animal collector in his later years. His beloved menagerie consisted of 300 different birds, dozens of Siamese cats, and 19 dogs, of which there were 11 greyhounds, several St. Bernards, and a few Kerry blue terriers. Barrymore also had a monkey, a few opossum, and mouse deer.""
quote[21]=""Adolf Hitler's favorite dog, Blondi, his Alsatian, was used to make sure his cyanide capsules were lethal. Hitler used the cyanide to commit suicide when he saw it worked on Blondi.""
quote[22]=""Agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
- George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist"
quote[23]=""All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog."
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924) German novelist, short-story writer"
quote[24]=""All of the good things that have come to me have come through my dog."
- A dog owner overheard in New York's Central Park"
quote[25]=""All trees have bark. All dogs bark. Therefore, all dogs are trees. The fallacy of barking up the wrong tree."
- Unknown"
quote[26]=""Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.""
quote[27]=""Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man."
- Andrés Segovia (1893-1987) Spanish guitarist"
quote[28]=""Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time."
- Henry Beston"
quote[29]=""Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."
- Alfred A. Montapert"
quote[30]=""Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."
- George Eliot"
quote[31]=""Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog."
- Franklin P. Jones"
quote[32]=""Ask not what your Shar-Pei can do for you; ask what you can do for your Shar-Pei..."
- Alan Thompson
Webmaster"
quote[33]=""Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching."
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English author"
quote[34]=""Carpe Shar-Pei!" (Seize the Dog!)
- Alan Thompson
Webmaster"
quote[35]=""Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads."
- Harry S Truman (1884-1972) 33rd president of the U.S."
quote[36]=""Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window."
- Steve Bluestone"
quote[37]=""Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives."
- Sue Murphy"
quote[38]=""Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog? "
- source unknown"
quote[39]=""DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship... [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition."
- Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."
quote[40]=""Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
- Roger Caras"
quote[41]=""Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace."
- Milan Kundera (b. 1929) Czech author, critic"
quote[42]=""Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us."
- Iris Murdoch (b. 1919) British novelist, philosopher"
quote[43]=""Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more."
- Agatha Christie (1891-1976) British mysteries writer"
quote[44]=""Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
- Dave Barry"
quote[45]=""Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made."
- Roger Caras"
quote[46]=""Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. - Clarence Day (1874-1935) U.S. essayist"
quote[47]=""Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate."
- Sigmund Freud"
quote[48]=""Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard."
- Dave Barry"
quote[49]=""Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted."
- Barbara Woodhouse (1910-1988) Irish author and dog trainer"
quote[50]=""Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
- Ann Landers"
quote[51]=""Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs."
- Martha Scott (b.1914) U.S. actress"
quote[52]=""Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart."
- Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Dogs... The Wolf Within"
quote[53]=""Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
-Anne Tyler"
quote[54]=""Every dog is a lion at home."
- H.G. Bohn"
quote[55]=""Every puppy should have a boy."
- erma bombeck"
quote[56]=""Excavators digging through the volcanic ash that buried the city of Pompei in A.D. 79 discovered a dog lying across a child. The dog, whose name was Delta, wore a collar that told how he had saved the life of her owner, Severinus, three times."
- john stephens"
quote[57]=""Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote."
- Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German writer"
quote[58]=""First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs."
- Lou Schultz, trainer of Alaskan Huskies"
quote[59]=""From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog."
- Mabel Louise Robinson"
quote[60]=""Happiness is a warm puppy."
- Charles M. Schulz (b. 1920) U.S. cartoonist"
quote[61]=""He cannot be a gentleman which loveth not a dog."
- John Northbrooke"
quote[62]=""He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
- Unknown"
quote[63]=""He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
~ Immanuel Kant"
quote[64]=""Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist and author"
quote[65]=""Her life was okay. Sometimes she wished she were sleeping with the right man instead of with her dog, but she never felt she was sleeping with the wrong dog."
- Change of Life by Judith Collas"
quote[66]=""Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English satirical poet"
quote[67]=""How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
- Abraham Lincoln"
quote[68]=""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 least attention."
- Pam Brown"
quote[69]=""I am I because my little dog knows me"
- Gertrude Stein"
quote[70]=""I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."
- James Thurber"
quote[71]=""I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
- Abraham Lincoln"
quote[72]=""I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night."
- Greg Louganis"
quote[73]=""I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons."
- Will Rogers (1879-1935) U.S. humorist"
quote[74]=""I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better."
- George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs"
quote[75]=""I took my dog for a walk... all the way from New York to Florida... I said to him"There now you're done."
- Steven Wright, Comedian"
quote[76]=""I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think, 'If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.'"
- Fred Jungclaus"
quote[77]=""I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
- Rita Rudner"
quote[78]=""I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl."
- Penny Ward Moser"
quote[79]=""I would rather see a portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."
- Samuel Johnson"
quote[80]=""I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness."
- Thomas McGuane (b. 1939) U.S. novelist"
quote[81]=""I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree."
- Dana Burnet"
quote[82]=""If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humour. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal."
- Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) British novelist, playwright"
quote[83]=""If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th president of the U.S.
"
quote[84]=""If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the sky."
- Proverb"
quote[85]=""If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."
- Andy Rooney"
quote[86]=""If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
- James Thurber"
quote[87]=""If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
- Will Rogers"
quote[88]=""If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an Archangel to disentangle them."
- Pam Brown"
quote[89]=""If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater... suggest that he wear a tail."
- Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951) U.S. journalist"
quote[90]=""If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also."
- Russian Proverb"
quote[91]=""If you don't mind throwing tennis balls for eternity, I do have an opening in doggie heaven."
- Frank and Ernest comic strip (an angel at St. Peter's gate, to a man seeking admittance)"
quote[92]=""If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around."
- Cowboy Wisdom"
quote[93]=""If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
- St. Francis of Assisi"
quote[94]=""If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
- Mark Twain"
quote[95]=""If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends."
- Deborah Norville"
quote[96]=""If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either."
- Unknown"
quote[97]=""If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise."
- Unknown"
quote[98]=""In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."
- Edward Hoagland (b. 1932) U.S. novelist, essayist"
quote[99]=""In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man."
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Our Friend, The Dog"
quote[100]=""Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect."
- W. R. Koehler"
quote[101]=""It freshens your breath and helps prevent tartar."
- Mel Gibson, while eating a dog biscuit at Harvard, 1996"
quote[102]=""It is better to have loved and lost a Sharpei, then to never have loved a Sharpei at all..."
- Jean Isachenko
Shar-Pei Forum Member"
quote[103]=""It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up."
- P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) British novelist"
quote[104]=""It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
- Mark Twain"
quote[105]=""It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do."
- Eleanor H. Potter"
quote[106]=""I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog."
- Wendy Liebman"
quote[107]=""I've caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs."
- Barbara Woodhouse (1910-1988) Irish author and dog trainer"
quote[108]=""I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts."
- John Steinbeck (1902-68) U.S. author"
quote[109]=""Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
- Ann Landers"
quote[110]=""Lassie looked brilliant, in part because the farm family she lived with was made up of idiots. Remember? One of them was always getting pinned under the tractor, and Lassie was always rushing back to the farmhouse to alert the other ones. She'd whimper and tug at their sleeves, and they'd always waste precious minutes saying things,
"Do you think something's wrong? Do you think she wants us to follow her? What is it, girl?
", etc., as if this had never happened before, instead of every week. What with all the time these people spent pinned under the tractor, I don't see how they managed to grow any crops whatsoever. They probably got by on federal crop supports, for which Lassie filed the applications."
- Dave Barry"
quote[111]=""Living with a dog is easy - like living with an idealist."
- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) U.S. journalist"
quote[112]=""Lord, I keep watch! If I am not here, who will guard their house? watch over their sheep? be faithful? No one but You and I understand what faithfulness is. They call me, "Good Dog! Nice dog!" Words..."
- anon. from "The Prayer of the Dog.""
quote[113]=""MAJOR
Born a dog
Died a gentleman."
- Epitaph on a dog's grave in Maryland"
quote[114]=""Maybe there are some areas where, when we are compared to dogs, we come up short. Being called a 'dog' might not be such a bad thing after all."
- John Richard Stephens"
quote[115]=""Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
- D. H. Lawrence"
quote[116]=""Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
- Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist"
quote[117]=""Most dog owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog."
- robert morley"
quote[118]=""Most dogs don't think they are human. They know they are."
- jane swan"
quote[119]=""My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I 'should' be doing."
- Lonzo Idolswine"
quote[120]=""My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money."
- Joe Weinstein"
quote[121]=""My goal in life is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am."
- Toby & Eileen Green"
quote[122]=""My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet."
- Edith Wharton"
quote[123]=""My music is best understood by children and animals."
- Igor Stravinsky"
quote[124]=""Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a Just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog."
- Hobhouse - Epitaph, on Lord Byron's dog, Boatswain, at Newstead Abbey"
quote[125]=""Never stand between a dog and the hydrant."
- John Peers"
quote[126]=""Never trust a dog to watch your food..."
- Patrick, age 10, from 'Advice from Kids'"
quote[127]=""Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland."
- Josh Billings"
quote[128]=""No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."
- Fran Lebowitz"
quote[129]=""No cold philosophy, no cynic sneer,
Checks the unhidden and honest tear,
What little difference, and how short the span,
Betwixt thy instinct and the mind of man."
- Inscription on a dog's gravestone"
quote[130]=""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"
quote[131]=""No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich."
- Louis Sabin"
quote[132]=""No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does."
- Christopher Morley (1890-1957) U.S. novelist, journalist, poet"
quote[133]=""Oh, the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!"
arthur gutterman"
quote[134]=""Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well."
- Bonnie Wilcox, Old Dogs, Old Friends"
quote[135]=""One dog barks at something; the rest bark at him."
- Chinese Proverb"
quote[136]=""Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage."
- agnes repplier"
quote[137]=""Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx (1895-1977) U.S. comic actor"
quote[138]=""Politics are not my concern... they impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies."
- Rudyard Kipling"
quote[139]=""Pomeranians speak only to Poodles, and Poodles speak only to God."
- Charles Kuralt on 48 Hours"
quote[140]=""Qui me amat, amet et canem meum" ("Love me, love my dog")
- St. Bernard, A.D. 1150, "Sermo Primu""
quote[141]=""Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit."
- Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman"
quote[142]=""Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail."
- Virginia Graham (b. 1912) U.S. author, commentator."
quote[143]=""Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."
- Franklin P. Jones"
quote[144]=""Shar-Pei Diem!" (Have a Pei Day!)
- Alan Thompson
Webmaster"
quote[145]=""So I laugh when I hear them make it plain
That dogs and men never meet again.
For all their talk who'd listen to them,
With the soul in the shining eyes of him?
Would God be wasting a dog like Tim? "
- W M Letts, Songs of Leinster"
quote[146]=""So many get reformed through religion. I got reformed through dogs."
- Lina Basquette (1907-1994) silent-film star and professional dog breeder"
quote[147]=""Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant."
- Unknown"
quote[148]=""Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
- Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1932) British-born American actress"
quote[149]=""The average dog has but one request of all humankind, 'Love me.'"
- helen exley"
quote[150]=""The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
- Andy Rooney (b. 1919) U.S. television personality"
quote[151]=""The best thing about a man is his dog."- French Proverb"
quote[152]=""The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know... . How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien?"
- Plato"
quote[153]=""The dog barks backward without getting up
I can remember when
he was a pup."
- Robert Frost"
quote[154]=""The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty."
- Barbara Woodhouse (1910-1988) Irish author and dog trainer"
quote[155]=""The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."
- James Thurber (1894-1961) U.S. humorist, illustrator"
quote[156]=""The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."
- Mark Twain, Letter to W. D. Howells, 4/2/1899"
quote[157]=""The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man."
- Robertson Davies"
quote[158]=""The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power."
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) Belgian author"
quote[159]=""The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic."
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87) U.S. clergyman, editor, writer"
quote[160]=""The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author"
quote[161]=""The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's."
- Polish Proverb"
quote[162]=""The more I know about men, the more I like dogs."
- Gloria Allred, feminist attorney"
quote[163]=""The more I see of men, the more I like dogs."
- madame de stael"
quote[164]=""The more people I meet the more I like my dog"
- Unknown"
quote[165]=""The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people."
- Daniel Pinkwater, Train Your Dog, Dammit!"
quote[166]=""The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog... He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world... When all other friends desert, he remains."
- George G. Vest"
quote[167]=""The plain fact that my dog loves me more than I love him is undeniable and always fills me with a certain feeling of shame. The dog is ever ready to lay down his life for me."
- Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) Austrian zoologist and ethologist"
quote[168]=""The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."
- Anonymous"
quote[169]=""The seeing-eye dog, or any dog trained to guide the blind, cannot tell a red light from a green one. When it lead its master across the street, it watches the traffic flow to tell when it is safe to cross.""
quote[170]=""The uglier the dog, the more he or she is loved."
- martyn lewis"
quote[171]=""The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs."
- Nietzche"
quote[172]=""There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog. waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. "
- Lee Iacocca, US auto business executive"
quote[173]=""There is an Indian legend which says when a human dies there is a bridge they must cross to enter into heaven. At the head of that bridge waits every animal that human encountered during their lifetime. The animals, based upon what they know of this person, decide which humans may cross the bridge -- and which are turned away."
- Unknown"
quote[174]=""There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog."
- Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) Austrian zoologist and ethologist"
quote[175]=""There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
- Ben Williams"
quote[176]=""They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation."
- Jerome K. Jerome"
quote[177]=""They are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) U.S. poet"
quote[178]=""They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe."
- Edward Westcott (1846 - 1898) US novelist, banker"
quote[179]=""Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane."
- Smiley Blanton"
quote[180]=""This is what you should do.. love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem."
- Walt Whitman"
quote[181]=""To a dog, the whole world is a smell."
- Anonymous"
quote[182]=""To err is human, to forgive, canine."
- Unknown"
quote[183]=""To his dog, every man is King; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
- Aldous Huxley"
quote[184]=""Trained or not, he'll always be his own dog to a degree."
- Carol Lea Benjamin"
quote[185]=""We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made."
- M. Facklam"
quote[186]=""We have not to gain his confidence or his friendship; he is born our friend; while his eyes are still closed, already he believes in us; even before his birth, he has given himself to Man."
- maurice maeterlink"
quote[187]=""What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower"
quote[188]=""What kind of life a dog... acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs."
- E.V. Lucas"
quote[189]=""When a dog wags her tail and barks at the same time, how do you know which end to believe?"
- Anonymous"
quote[190]=""When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
- Edward Abbey"
quote[191]=""When all other friends desert, he remains."
- George G. Vest"
quote[192]=""When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget they're not people."
- Julia Glass"
quote[193]=""When old dogs bark, it's time to watch out."
- anon"
quote[194]=""When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'"
- Rudyard Kipling"
quote[195]=""Who kicks a dog kicks his own soul towards Hell."
- Will Judy"
quote[196]=""Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies."
- Gene Hill"
quote[197]=""Whoever said"let sleeping dogs lie"didn't sleep with dogs.
- Unknown"
quote[198]=""Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?"
- Edith Sitwell"
quote[199]=""Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw - I don't say she will, but she can."
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) U.S. humorous writer"
quote[200]=""Women and cats will do as they damn well please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
- Robert A. Heinlein"
quote[201]=""You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'"
- Dave Barry"
quote[202]=""You learn in this business if you want a friend, get a dog."
- Carl Icahn, US auto business executive"
quote[203]=""You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid to learn how but because she's too smart to bother."
- Rick Horowitz, Chicago Tribune"
quote[204]=""You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."
- Robert Louis Stevenson"
quote[205]=""You took me in, you gave me love and we will never part
Because I'm blind with just my eyes, I see you in my heart."
- sherrill wardrip "From a Blind Dog""
quote[206]="At the dog-show held at our local hospital fete, there were many handsome dogs with equally handsome owners. But my attention was drawn to a small mongrel and his owner, a boy of about eleven. For nearly an hour, the boy had been gently grooming and hugging his pet in turn.
When his name was called the boy tenderly took the dog's head into his cupped hands and looked at him with all the love a small boy could show. "Now you mustn't be upset if you don't win a prize," he said, "you see, they don't know you as well as I do."
- source unknown"
quote[207]=""33% of U.S. dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away.""
quote[208]=""62% of Americans sign letters or cards from themselves and their dogs.""
quote[209]=""Annually, Americans spend more on dog food than on baby food.""
quote[210]=""At the end of the Beatles' song 'A Day in the Life,' an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.""
quote[211]=""Barking Sands Beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is known for its unusual sand that squeaks or 'barks like a dog.' The dry sand grains emit an eerie sound when rubbed with bare feet.""
quote[212]=""Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.""
quote[213]=""Boxers were named after their habit of playing. At the beginning of play with another dog, a Boxer will stand on his hind legs and bat at his opponent, appearing to 'box' with his front paws.""
quote[214]=""Cats, not dogs, are the most common pets in America (roughly 66 million cats to 58 million dogs, with parakeets a distant third at 14 million).""
quote[215]=""Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the pads of their feet.""
quote[216]=""J.P. Blanchard, a Frenchman, is said to have been the first to use a parachute. In 1785 from a balloon high in the air, he dropped a dog in a basket attached to a parachute.""
quote[217]=""Greyhounds have better eyesight than any other breed of dog.""
quote[218]=""In Russia, dogs have been trained to sniff out ore deposits that contain iron sulfides""
quote[219]=""In the early 1940's, Swiss inventor George de Mestral went on a walk with his dog. After arriving home, he saw that his pants and his dog's coat were covered with cockleburrs. When he looked at the burrs under a microscope, he discovered they have a natural hook-like shape, which became the basis for his invention of a unique, two-sided fastener
-- one side with stiff 'hooks' like the burrs and the other side with the soft 'loops' like the fabric of his pants. The result was VELCRO® brand hook and loop fasteners, named for the French words 'velour' and 'crochet.'""
quote[220]=""Lassie is the favorite movie dog of animal experts, beating out Benji and Beethoven.""
quote[221]=""More than one million stray dogs and over 500,000 stray cats live in the New York City metropolitan area.""
quote[222]=""Seven out of 10 dogs get Christmas gifts from their masters.""
quote[223]=""Sled dogs running in the Ididarod burn an average of 10,000 calories each day.""
quote[224]=""The Alaskan Iditarod, an annual 1,149-mile race, commemorates the 1925 'Race for Life' when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.""
quote[225]=""The fastest dog, the Greyhound, can reach speeds of up to 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt as many as 6,000 years ago.""
quote[226]=""The only dog to ever appear in a Shakespearean play was "Crab" in 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona.'""
quote[227]=""The State Sport of Alaska is dog mushing.""
quote[228]=""There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.""
quote[229]=""Though human noses have an impressive 5 million olfactory cells with which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times better than man.""
quote[230]="Dog Facts -"The now-extinct ancestor of the horse, eohippus, had a short neck, a pug muzzle, and stood no higher than a medium-sized dog.""
quote[231]="THE ANIMALS' SAVIOR
"I looked at all the caged animals in the shelter...the cast-offs of human society.
I saw in their eyes love and hope, fear and dread, sadness and betrayal. And I was angry.
'God,' I said, 'this is terrible! Why don't you do something?'
God was silent for a moment, and then He spoke softly. 'I have done something,' He replied. 'I created You.'"
- Jim Willis"
quote[232]=""A dog can understand between 35 to 40 commands.""
quote[233]=""Edgy dogs are more likely to attack if stared at than 'laid-back' dogs.""
quote[234]=""A dog's hearing and sense of smell is 300 times better than a human's.""
quote[235]="20% of owned dogs were adopted from an animal shelter."
quote[236]="A dog can hear sounds 250 yards away that most people cannot hear beyond 25 yards."
quote[237]="A dog's heart beats between 70 and 120 times a minute, compared with a human heart which beats 70 to 80 times a minute."
quote[238]="A female carries her young about 60 days before the puppies are born."
quote[239]=""A wealthy person may regret
lost opportunities to aid and abet
in easing the suffering of so many,
failing to give much more than a penny."
- Richard C. Call - Save a Homeless Puppy, Rescue an Older Dog"
quote[240]="All breeds and sizes of dogs, from Silky Terriers to Great Danes have been caught attacking livestock. Dogs as young as 3 months of age and as old as 12 years, unsterilised and sterilised dogs of both sexes, dogs with three legs, no teeth and with the best pedigree, have been involved."
quote[241]="All dogs are probably descended from the Tomarctus, an animal that lived approximately 15 million years ago."
quote[242]="All dogs, from the German Shepherd to the tiny Poodle, are direct descendants of wolves. They can all breed together and produce fertile offspring. Technically they are of the same species."
quote[243]="Although most modern dog breeds were developed about 100 years ago and a few in the 1700s, these general dog classes -- hunters, guard dogs, and herders, have been known for thousands of years."
quote[244]=""An evangelist was extolling God's great virtues, heaping fulsome praise and shouting hallelujah. He exhorted those around him to join in adulation and receive assurance of their heavenly salvation.
He paid scant attention to the creature at his feet. It was just a homeless stray who came in off the street, thirsty for some water and seeking refuge from the heat.
The evangelist was annoyed but kept on giving praise, showing devout devotion with a steady upward gaze.
Suddenly he was startled to hear a Divine voice say, 'First get the dog some water, and then you can pray.'"
Richard C. Call - Save a Homeless Puppy, Rescue an Older Dog"
quote[245]="Argos or Argus, Ulysses' hunting dog, was the only creature to recognize the Greek hero when he returned home disguised as a beggar after 20 years of adventure."
quote[246]=""Better to light a candle for one lost dog than to curse the darkness of man's indifference. Saving just one dog won't change the world but it surely will change the world for that one dog."
- Richard C. Call"
quote[247]="Sirius, the Dog Star, is located on the shoulder of the Constellation named Canis Major, meaning "Great Dog.""
quote[248]=""Can't find God in the usual places …
churches, books or preachers' faces?
Keep on searching and don't give up,
You may just find Him in the eyes of a pup."
- Richard C. Call - Save a Homeless Puppy, Rescue an Older Dog"
quote[249]="Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Greek mythology, guarded the gates to the underworld."
quote[250]="Chasing and attacking livestock is a normal dog behaviour. All dogs can chase, track and retrieve. They can also conclude these hunting behaviours by grabbing, biting and killing."
quote[251]="Dogs, wolves and foxes are all descended from the Miacis, a small, tree-dwelling, weasel-like mammal that lived about 40 million years ago."
quote[252]="Dogs are able to see much better in dim light than humans are. This is due to the tapetum lucidum, a light-reflecting layer behind the retina. Because it functions like a mirror, it also accounts for the strange shine or glow in a dog's eyes at night."
quote[253]="Dogs are pack animals by nature. They need closeness, touching, and petting to be content and happy."
quote[254]="Dogs can see color but it is not as vivid a color scheme as we see. It is much like our vision at twilight."
quote[255]="Dogs can see color, but not nearly as well as we can. The reason is because the dog's eye has a smaller ratio of cones to rods in their retinas. Cones enable color vision; rods are useful for black and white vision in dim light."
quote[256]="Dogs can see far better in dim light than we can. This is because dogs originated from animals that hunted at dawn and dusk when it was vital to make the most of what little light there is."
quote[257]="Dogs can very easily regurgitate. In fact, after eating wolves can travel significant distances back to their dens and regurgitate the food at will to feed their pups!"
quote[258]="Dogs cannot see as well as humans and are considered color blind. A dog sees objects first by their movement, second by their brightness, and third by their shape."
quote[259]="Humans typically have a visual range of about 180°. Dogs have a visual range of about 250° while the Greyhound has a visual range of 270°."
quote[260]="Dogs, as we know them today, first appeared in Eurasia about 13,000 years ago."
quote[261]="Humans have about 5 million sensory 'smelling' cells. Dachshunds have 125 million, Fox Terriers about 150 million, and Alsatans (often used as 'sniffer' dogs) have 220 million"
quote[262]="The three stars of Orion's Belt point to the Dog Star in the constellation, Canus Major, at Orion's heels."
quote[263]="Uncontrolled dogs and cats have destroyed many of the native animals in areas close to towns and cities."
quote[264]="Wisconsin made some forms of animal cruelty a felony offense in 1986. Since then, 27 states have passed similar laws."
quote[265]="If your dog has bad breath, he may need his teeth cleaned."
quote[266]="About one American family in three owns a dog."
quote[267]="Irish Wolfhounds rank as the largest dog, and Chihuahuas as the smallest dog. The St. Bernard is the heaviest dog and other breeds range in size between these extremes."
quote[268]="Laika was the world's first space traveler. Russian scientists sent the small dog aloft in Sputnik 2 in 1957. "
quote[269]="Lassie - Any of a line of popular collies in movies and in television series. The first Lassie starred in the 1942 movie 'Lassie Come Home'."
quote[270]="Le Diable - A notorious French dog that smuggled lace and other costly items across the French border under a false skin dyed various colors by its owners to baffle the customs guards."
quote[271]="Many foot disorders in dogs are related to long toenails. Check your dog's nails once a month and trim when necessary, avoiding the vein."
quote[272]=""Maybe God doesn't care what we say we believe
As long as we manage good works to achieve,
Helping God's creatures and easing their pain
Without selfish motive of heaven to gain."
- Richard C. Call - Save a Homeless Puppy, Rescue an Older Dog"
quote[273]="More than five million puppies are born every year in the United States."
quote[274]="Most dogs have been fed on meat from an early age and have already tasted blood. Dogs find chasing non-descript moving objects rewarding and this is why they are more likely to return to the scene of a livestock attack."
quote[275]="Most dogs involved in livestock attacks are friendly and approachable and do not look or behave like killers when interacting with people. This is why 90% of dog owners find it difficult to accept that their pets have killed livestock. Dogs behave very differently when on their own, away from home with other dogs or when attacking livestock."
quote[276]="NEVER punish a puppy for chewing... just be sure to provide the appropriate objects. Puppies need to chew to stimulate the loss of their baby teeth and to help place their permanent teeth."
quote[277]="Dog owners have 1.7 dogs on average"
quote[278]="On average, dog owners spend $196 on veterinary related expenses each year."
quote[279]="One of the worlds oldest breeds of dog is the Saluki. It is thought to have been developed in ancient Mesopotamia around 3000 B.C."
quote[280]="Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd, ranked as one of the all-time famous canine movie stars. "Rinty" was in 19 movies before his death in 1932."
quote[281]="Eight million pets lose their lives in animal shelters each year due to overpopulation. That's 22,000 put to death each day."
quote[282]="Saur, or Suening, was "King" of Norway for three years during the 11th century AD. The Norwegian king, angry that his subjects once deposed him, put Saur on the throne and demanded that he be treated regally."
quote[283]="Some authorities estimate that some dogs sense of olfaction (smelling) is as high as 1 million times greater than humans."
quote[284]="Some livestock owners allow their dogs to play with or chase their own livestock. This enables the dog to gain the skills needed to attack livestock and gives it the opportunity to practice. Many of these dogs have been shot later for killing their owner's livestock, and many more have gone to other properties to attack and kill."
quote[285]="Soter, one of 50 watchdogs of ancient Corinth in Greece, alone survived attack by invaders and ran to the gates of the city to warn its citizens."
quote[286]="Stone-aged people tamed dogs to help them track game."
quote[287]="Tests have shown that a dog cannot see its owner when the owner stands still a mere 300 yards away, yet can easily detect someone a mile away waving his arms. The dog's vision is a result of its hunter ancestry that needed to track fleeing prey."
quote[288]="The Basenji, an African wolf dog, is the only dog that cannot bark."
quote[289]="The Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, and the 4-H Club all offer merit badges in dog care."
quote[290]="The dog's eye also possesses a light-reflecting layer called the tapetum lucidum that acts as an image-intensifying device. This reflection makes an object seen in dim light more clear. And the tapetum lucidum also causes dogs eyes to shine in the dark."
quote[291]="Hot summer days, also called Dog Days, run from July 3 to August 11th. They were thought to be caused by Sirius, The Dog Star, because of its close proximity to the sun during this time."
quote[292]="The normal body temperature for a dog is 101.2° F."
quote[293]="About eight thousand years ago, ancient Egyptians raised Saluki hunting dogs. Saluki is an arabic word meaning noble one. These dogs are probably the oldest known breed."
quote[294]="The tallest dogs are the Great Dane and the Irish Wolfhound. The largest Great Dane stood at 103cm and an Irish Wolfhound was 100cm."
quote[295]="There are approximately 68,000,000 owned dogs in the United States."
quote[296]="Though it has no effect on the overall personality, neutered male dogs tend to display less aggression, and territorial behavior."
quote[297]="Well-fed pets from nearby suburban homes or ranches are usually responsible for livestock attacks."
quote[298]="Worlds Best Drug Sniffing Dog. A US Customs Labrador named "Snag" made 118 drug seizures worth a canine record $810 million."
quote[299]="The world's heaviest and longest dog ever recorded was an Old English Mastiff named Zorba. In 1989, Zorba weighed 343 lbs and was 8 feet 3 inches long from nose to tail!"
quote[300]="The world's oldest dog that has been reliably documented was a Queensland Heeler named Bluey. He was put to sleep at the age of 29 years and 5 months."
quote[301]="The world's smallest dog was a tiny Yorkie from Blackburn, England. Fully grown at two years of age, he was 2.5 inches tall, 3.75 inches long, and weighed only 4 ounces, approximately the size of a matchbox."
quote[302]="The world's tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall at the shoulder and weighed 238 lbs."
quote[303]="The greatest number of drug seizures made in one year by dogs was 969 in 1988."
quote[304]="The drug sniffing dog team of "Rocky" and "Barco" patrolled a portion of the Texas and Mexico border known as "Cocaine Alley." They were so good at their jobs that Mexican drug lords put a price on their heads of $30,000 each."
quote[305]="The average dog lives to around 15 years of age."
quote[306]="The human ear can detect sound waves vibrating at frequencies up to 20,000 times a second. But dogs can hear sound waves that vibrate at frequencies of more than 30,000 times a second."
quote[307]="Neutered male dogs are less likely to contract urogenital diseases."
quote[308]="The Dog Star, Sirius, is best seen in the northern hemisphere during winter between December and March."
quote[309]=""Truffle hounds" can sniff out this fungus delicacy even when it's a foot underground."
quote[310]="In Roman times and the Middle Ages, mastiffs wearing light armour, carrying spikes and pots of flaming sulphur and resin ran into battle against mounted knights."
quote[311]="In World War II the Russians trained dogs to run suicide missions between the tracks of German tanks with mines strapped on their backs."
quote[312]="The dingo is not native to Australia but was introduced thousands of years ago by the first immigrants. Dogs were first domesticated by cavemen in the Palaeolithic age and gradually developed (or were bred) into the breeds known today."
quote[313]="Dogs were first domesticated by cavemen in the Palaeolithic age and gradually developed (or were bred) into the breeds known today."
quote[314]="The constellation Canis Major, meaning "Great Dog," follows his master Orion as he makes his annual journey across the night sky."
quote[315]="Sirius, the Dog Star, is the brightest star in the heavens. Its name means "sparkling" or "scorching," as it is the nearest star to the sun during the height of summer."
quote[316]="Dogs are instinctive joiners, which is why when one dog barks, dogs all over the neighborhood start to bark."
quote[317]="When a dog licks you with a straight tongue, he's saying "I Love You.""
quote[318]="18% of people with companion animals sleep with them."
quote[319]="The most common cause of ill health in canines is obesity."
quote[320]="Approximately 60% of all adult dogs are overweight or will become overweight due to lack of physical activity and overfeeding."
quote[321]="Much like humans, the medical consequences of obesity in dogs include liver, heart and orthopedic problems."
quote[322]="As little as a few extra pounds on a small dog can lead to health-related complications."
quote[323]="The domestic dog dates back more than 50,000 years."
quote[324]="90% of dog caregivers speak to their dogs like humans, walk or run with their dogs, and take pictures of them."
quote[325]="72% of dog caregivers take their pups for car rides and discuss the latest behavior of Lucky with their friends."
quote[326]="51% of dog caregivers hang Christmas stockings for their dogs."
quote[327]="41% of dog caregivers watch movies and TV with their pooches."
quote[328]="29% of dog caregivers sign Rover's name to greeting cards."
quote[329]="More than 20% of dog caregivers buy homes with their dogs in mind, and arrange the furniture so Fifi can see outside."
quote[330]="Frederick the Great owned an estimated 30 greyhounds. His love of these animals led him to coin the saying: "the more I see of men, the more I love my dogs.""
quote[331]="Lewis and Clark traveled with a 150-pound Newfoundland named "Seaman." This pooch was a respected member of the expedition, and his antics were included in the explorers' extensive diaries."
quote[332]="As many as 64% of animals who arrive at U.S. shelters are euthanized - about 22,000 cats and dogs killed a day, seven days per week."
quote[333]="According to a survey, more than 25% of dog caregivers keep a snapshot of their animal in their purse or wallet."
quote[334]="In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated."
quote[335]="Nationwide, grandparents annually spend an average of $195.24 on their companion animals and $178.68 on their grandchildren."
quote[336]="Recent studies have shown that interacting with companion animals may speed recovery from illness, reduce stress, and promote family bonding."
quote[337]="Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400."
quote[338]="The Pet Store industry is now a $25 billion a year market in the U.S."
quote[339]="In 1998, there were 56.8 million dogs and 71.3 million cats in U.S. households."
quote[340]="The Pet Food Industry reported retail sales in 1999 of over $11 bil. in the U.S."
quote[341]="There's a clear link between animal abuse and domestic violence. In a 1995 Wisconsin survey, 4 out of 5 victims of domestic violence in homes with companion animals said their pets were also abused."
quote[342]="Got an interesting dog fact or quote? Send it to us!"
quote[343]=""It is Man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man."
- Albert Schweitzer"
quote[344]=""Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we ourselves will not find peace." - Albert Schweitzer"
quote[345]="Modern dogs were probably a direct descendant of a small, grey wolf in Southern China."
quote[346]="The Basenji is the only dog that does not bark."
quote[347]="The Janpanese Shibu Inu was designated a National Treasure in its country of origin in 1936."
quote[348]="Louis Dobermann, a tax collector, created the Dobermann breed to protect him on his rounds."
quote[349]="In 1987, the Crufts Dog Show was expanded from three to four days to cope with an ever increasing number of entries."
quote[350]="The Australian Shepard was actually created by the Americans when sheep were imported in the U.S. from Australia."
quote[350]="The Australian Shepard was actually created by the Americans when sheep were imported in the U.S. from Australia."
quote[351]="Two unaltered cats and all their descendents can number 420,000 in just seven years."
quote[352]="Two unaltered dogs and all their descendents can number 67,000 in just six years."
quote[353]="'No homes for littermates' is one of the top ten reasons people relinquish their cats and dogs to shelters."
quote[354]="The top reason both cat guardians and dog guardians give for not having their pet altered is that they simply have not bothered to do it yet."
quote[355]="20% of cat guardians think their cat is too young to be altered, and 18% say they are not able to afford spay/neuter surgery."
quote[356]="21% of dog guardians want to breed their dog, and 13% think their dog is too young to be altered."
quote[357]="An estimated 5 million cats and dogs are killed in shelters each year. That's one about every six and one half seconds."
quote[358]="Tens of millions of stray and feral cats struggle to survive on their own outdoors. Although some are altered and live in managed colonies, most are not altered and receive no health care. They reproduce at will and many suffer from illness or injury before dying."
quote[360]="Over half (56%) of dog guardians and nearly two-thirds (63%) of cat guardians rank pet overpopulation as the most important pet issue."
quote[361]="In a study of relinquishment of cats and dogs in 12 U.S. animal shelters, 30% of the surrendered dogs were purebreds."
quote[362]="In a study of relinquishment of cats and dogs in 12 U.S. animal shelters, 55% of surrendered dogs and 47% of surrendered cats were unaltered."
quote[363]="It costs U.S. taxpayers an estimated $2 billion each year to round up, house, kill, and dispose of homeless animals."
quote[364]="Over 56% of dogs and puppies entering shelters are killed, based on reports from over 1,055 facilities across America."
quote[365]="Approximately 71% of cats and kittens entering shelters are killed, based on reports from 1,055 facilities across America."
quote[366]="If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)"
quote[367]="We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. - Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877"
quote[368]="I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. - August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895"
quote[369]="Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. - Snoopy (Charles M. Schulz, 1922 - 2000)"
quote[370]="It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? - Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912"
quote[371]="Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857"
quote[372]="Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez"
quote[373]="Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. - Joe Gores"
quote[374]="On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. - Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993"
quote[375]="If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. - Phil Pastoret"
quote[376]="My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. -Unknown"
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