Dog’s note to God: We dogs can understand human verbal instructions, hand signals, whistles, horns, clickers, beepers, scent ID’s, electromagnetic energy fields, and Frisbee flight paths. What do humans understand?

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

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Martha Scott

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
Andrew A. Rooney

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
Roger Caras, A Celebration of Dogs

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.
Anonymous

“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

“The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.”
Anonymous

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney (b. 1919) U.S. television personality

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

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Ben Williams

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

Speak softly and own a big, mean Doberman.
Dave Miliman

Some days you’re the dog, and some days you’re the hydrant.
Unknown

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

They say the dog is man’s best friend. I don’t believe that. How many of your friends have you neutered?
Larry Reeb

I know that dogs are pack animals, but it is difficult to imagine a pack of standard poodles…and if there was such a thing as a pack of standard poodles, where would they rove to? Bloomingdale’s?
Yvonne Clifford, American actress

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
Margot Kaufman, American writer

The Airdale… an unrivaled mixture of brains, and clownish wit, the very ingredients one looks for in a spouse.
Chip Brown, Connoisseur Magazine

Faithful:
With eye upraised his master’s look to scan,
The joy, the solace, and
the aid of man:
The rich man’s guardian and the poor man’s friend,
The only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe