Quotations

"It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my
heart with them. And every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with
a piece of their heart. If I live long enough, all the components of my
heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they
are."
-- Cheryl Zuccaro

"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you."
-- Austin O'Malley (1858-1932), Physician and humorist

"It's hard to believe, but some people claim their dogs are almost
human --- and they mean it as a compliment!"

"Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people
without ever reading a book?"

"Another reason why a dog is man's best friend is because he's not
always calling for explanations."

"How did dogs learn to bark their loudest during a television news
bulletin?"

"A hot shower on a cold, wet day, a phone call from a dear friend, or
the lick of a dog's tongue on your hand are reminders of life's simple
pleasures."
-- Brian Luke Seaward, Holistic health educator

"Never underestimate the warmth of a cold nose."

"Like objects in the passenger side mirror, Kerries are closer than
they appear."

"Whenever I feel poor, I remember that I'd rather have my dogs than
other people's money."
-- Susan Conant, "Black Ribbon"

"My dog and cat have taught me a great lesson of life...shed a lot."
-- Susan Carlson

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves
himself.
-- Josh Billings

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

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a
look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'
-- Dave Barry

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
-- Roger Caras

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

My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I
am.
-- Unknown

"Many have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain
responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
-- P. Steiner

"No heaven can heaven be if my dog is not there to welcome me."
-- unknown

" I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home
which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls
every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes
home late at night."
-- Marie Corelli

"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We
can't decide to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. "
-- Rita Rudne

" I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog."
--Wendy Liebman

" When you point out something to a dog, he looks at your finger."
-- J. Bryan

"Never repeat a command. Most dogs are not deaf; they just choose not
to listen."
-- Connie Jankowski, Dog trainer

"Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in
urine."
-- J. R. Ackerley

"He may be a dog, but don't tell me he doesn't have a real grip on
life."
-- Kendall Hailey

"FOOVIEW (foo' view) n. The ability of a dog to inflict guilt from any
angle in the room while he watches his master eat."
-- Rich Hall

"There's facts about dogs, and there's opinions about them. The dogs
have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want facts
about dogs, always get them straight from the dog. If you want
opinions, get them from humans."
-- J. Allen Boone

"Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like
children."
-- Barbara Woodhouse

"Humans have externalized their wisdom--stored it in museums,
libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood
and bones."
-- Donald McCraig

"The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding
moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. The bond
with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be."
-- Konrad Lorenz

"Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not
respect."
-- W. R. Koehler

"You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook
breakfast, not because he's too stupid to learn how but because he's
too smart to bother."
-- Rick Horowitz, Chicago Tribune

"There are no one-night stands with a dog. Once you let your pet into
your bed, it's hard to get him out."
-- Diana Delmar

"A man and his dog goes so well with home and castle."
-- Ian Niall

"The small percentage of dogs that bite peole is monumental proof that
the dog is the most benign, forgiving crature on earth."
-- W. R. Koehler

"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is
contained in the dog."
-- Franz Kafka

"It takes balls to neuter your pet!"

"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

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Blood Samples Needed From Epileptic Dogs

UPDATED MARCH 2006: Dr. Yuri F. Melekhovets, Laboratory Director of HealthGene Corp., Toronto, Canada, has announced that his group has located the gene responsible for producing inherited epilepsy in canines.

HealthGene Corporation is the largest private veterinary DNA diagnostic and research laboratory in Canada. DNA-based testing for animal infectious and genetic diseases.

HealthGene now is studying the various mutations that produce different forms of epilepsy in different breeds. Dr. Melekhovets requests that owners of dogs with epilepsy submit blood samples to further that research.

Samples should come from dogs which have been medically diagnosed with epilepsy or have had symptoms of epilepsy for at least two years. Two vials of blood samples per dog should be sent in lavender topped tubes, together with a pedigree and brief health history (whether it has seizures, when they started, whether they are mild or severe, and what type of diagnostics have been performed).

Send the samples by FedEx, using HealthGene's account number (#238368138),
using FedEx's International Air Waybill with the following information for "Shipment Information":

a) Commodity description: "Canine Blood Samples for DNA Testing";
b) Total Declared Value for Customs is $1.00;
c) international first; and
d) 3 copies commercial invoice.

Send the vials to this address:

HealthGene Laboratory
2175 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M6M 3Z4 Canada

Dr. Melekhovets may be contacted at:
telephone: 905-669-5399;
fax: 905-669-2235;
email: dr.melekhovets@healthgene.com
Source http://www.cavalierhealth.org/epilepsy.htm

Veterinary Resources:

Control of Canine Genetic Diseases, Padgett, G.A., Howell Book House 1998, pp. 198-199, 235.

Inheritance of occipital bone hypoplasia (Chiari type I malformation) in Cavalier King Charles spaniels, Rusbridge C., Knowler S. P.; J. Vety.Int. Med. 18, 673-678 (2004)

"Seizures" (Podell, M.) in: Manual of Small Animal Neurology, 3d ed. Editors Olby N., Platt S., British Small Animal Vety Assn(2004). pp 97-112.

Neurological diseases of the Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Rusbridge, C. J Small Animal Practice, June 2005, 46(6): 265-272(8).

Quotes again

"Folks will know how large your soul is,
By the way you treat a dog!"
-- Charles F. Doran

"The worst dog gets the best bone."
-- Peretz

"My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and
that we are our brother's keeper."
-- Mary Johnston

"My little old dogs:
A heart-beat at my feet."
-- Edith Wharton

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."
-- Franklin Jones

" Show a dog a finger, and he wants the whole hand"
-- Yiddish Proverb

"Killing the dog does not cure the bite."
-- Anonymous

"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

"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
-- Max Eastman

"No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog."
-- Albert Payson Terhune

"The more I see men, the more I like dogs"
-- Mme. de Staël

"Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass
no criticisms."
-- George Eliot

"The dog is all things to all men."
-- Ian Niall

"Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let
him have one."
-- Anonymous

"When some men go to the dogs, it's pretty rough on the dogs."
-- Anonymous

"A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself,
accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers
believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is
voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected."
-- Alex Munthe

"Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching that cannot lie."
-- Rudyard Kipling

"One reason a dog is such a comfort when you're downcast is that he
doesn't ask to know why."
-- Anonymous

"You always sympathize with the underdog, except when the other dog is
yours."
-- Anonymous

"The most important role of dogs today is to be our friends and
companions. Dogs require loving attention, but they give back more than
they receive."
-- Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

"I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them."
-- Roger Caras

"With dogs, you don't need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They
are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some variant
of love."
-- Cynthia Heimel

"A little attention, a pat on the head, and a kind word every now and
then is all your dog asks."
-- Louis Sabin

"Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the
middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving
the dog a dog's life."
-- Ian Niall

"No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a
dog makes you rich."
-- Louis Sabin

"The noblest dog of all is the hot dog; it feeds the hand that bites
it."
-- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

"Every dog isn't a growler, and every growler isn't a dog."
-- Anonymous

Epilepsy Resources

Epilepsy is one of the most common diseases in the canine world.

Idiopathic epilepsy, the single most common canine seizure disorder, is reported to occur in anywhere from 0.5 to 5.7 percent of all dogs. (Thomas Graves, DVM)

The causes of seizures are widely varied, ranging from epilepsy to nervous system diseases or injury. In dogs, hyperthermia, poisoning, low blood sugar, nutritional deficiencies, distemper, intestinal parasites, low blood calcium after birthing, liver and kidney disease and thyroid problems may be underlying factors. In cats, convulsions may be linked to feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) toxoplasmosis, lymphosarcoma ( leukemia), thiamine deficiency, or heart disorder. (Mary L. Wulff-Tilford & Gregory L. Tilford)

Resources:

An excellent resource for owners of epileptic dogs and cats is:
http://www.canine-epilepsy.com/Resources.html

http://www.vetinfo.com/dogseizure.html
Vetinfo - Seizures in Dogs - Ask Dr. Mike.

http://www.himmlisch.com/perusal.htm
Kathi and Roy Dvorak's "Perusal Page" a must visit.

http://www.belfield.com/article8.html
"Idiopathic Epilepsy" by Dr. Wendell O. Belfield.

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1828&articleid=433
Epilepsy a cause of Seizures in Dogs by Race Foster, DVM, Marty Smith, DVM Holly Frisby, DVM,

http://www.golden-retriever.com/idiopathic_epilepsy.htm
Idiopathic Epilepsy.

http://www.marvistavet.com/html/seizure_disorder.html
Seizure Disorders .

http://www.ivis.org/special_books/Braund/berendt/chapter_frm.asp
International Veterinary Information Service ( A great site)

http://www.nichols-online.co.uk/html/canine_epilepsy_information.html
Information from a British member of Epil-K9

Dr. Temple Grandin is coming to NC State!

Dr. Temple Grandin is coming to NC State!

The NC State College of Veterinary Medicine is proud to welcome Dr. Temple Grandin. Dr. Grandin will present a lecture entitled, "Animals in Translation" on Wednesday, April 12, 2006, at 6:30pm at McKimmon Center. A reception will follow the lecture.

There is no charge for this event, but advance reservations are requested. Please RSVP to Samantha Hartford via e-mail or by calling 919-513-6421 if you would like to attend. Please include your name and practice/university/organization affiliation when you RSVP. This lecture is not appropriate for children under the age of 12.

Genetics Seminar - C. A. Sharp

The Carolina Australian Shepherd Club presents
a seminar with:

C.A. Sharp

Graham, North Carolina
Saturday, July 15, 2006

Sharp has written extensively on genetics and hereditary disease,
initially for breeders of Australian Shepherds but more recently for a
wider audience. She has since 1993 published Double Helix Network News,
a quarterly canine genetics newsletter. Helix has been a finalist in the
Dog Writers Association of America's annual awards competition numerous
times, twice winning "Maxwell" awards, one for the newsletter itself and
for the feature article "The Price of Popularity." Sharp was the first
recipient of AKC Canine Health Foundation's Golden Paw Award for the
article "The Rising Storm." Sharp is currently working on a book.

To find out more about C.A. and her mission, please check out the
organization she founded - ASHGI (Australian Shepherd Health & Genetics
Institute) - at www.ashgi.org

If you are interested in attending, please contact:

Pamela Christian
pchristian@kindermusik.com

More Dog Quotations

"A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his
bark."
-- Anonymous

"There's just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come
home, they're thrilled to see you. They're good for the ego."
-- Janet Schnellman

"A good dog deserves a good bone."
-- Proverb

"We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security,
and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs."
-- Roger Caras

"A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where
a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him."
-- Anonymous

"The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog,
for man is more laughable of the two animals."
--James Thurber

"A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old.
He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good
joke-teller, not the best athlete, not the best-looking person. To your
dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was
ever born. You are his friend and protector."
-- Louis Sabin

"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

"The dog has seldom pulled man up to his level of sagity, but man has
frequently dragged the dog down to his."
-- James Thurber

"The greatest 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

"Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be
fed regularly."
-- Anonymous

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight--it's
the size of the fight in the dog."
-- President Dwight Eisenhower

"Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the
overflow and surplus of the world's worship."
-- Ambrose Bierce

"The only 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."
-- George Graham Vest

"Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll
treat you like dogs."
-- Martha Scott

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-- Mark Twain

"Dogs drool, bitches rule!"

"A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog."
-- Haitian Farmer

"Man is a dogs ideal of what God should be."
-- Holbrook Jackson, 1874, English Journalist.

"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you."
-- Austin O'Malley, 1858-1932, American Oculist.

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of
friends."
-- Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English Poet.

"When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary."
-- Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, French Novelist.

"If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along
with them as we do people."
-- Karel Capek, 1890-1938, Czech Journalist.

"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your
dog would go in."
-- Mark Twain.

"When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her
trunk and go home to mama."
-- Mark Twain.

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
-- Ogden Nash

"Both humans and dogs love to play well in adulthood, and individuals
from both species occasionally display evidence of having a
conscience."
-- John Winokur, American Writer

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with
him and not only will he not scold you, he will make a fool of himself
too."
-- Samuel Butler

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, "The first to welcome,
foremost to defend."
-- Lord Byron, an epitaph for his dog Boatswain.

"Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as
Wall Street and the railroads."
-- Harry S. Truman

"God ... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to
watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking,
that it could not have been made better."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

"A dog is like an eternal Peter Pan, a child who never grows old and
who therefore is always available to love and be loved."
-- Aaron Katcher, American Educator and Psychiatrist

"Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend."
-- Corey Ford, American writer

"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."
-- Gerold Solomon, US Congressman

"Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"They 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, English humorist

"They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell."
-- Emily Dickenson

"The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse. "
-- Josh Billings.

"A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get
mad himself."
- -George D. Prentice 1802-1870 American Journalist & Humorist.

"Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you."
-- Francois Rabelais, 1495-1583, French Humorist.

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where
they went."
-- Will Rogers

"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. Acklam

"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

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead
of his tongue."
-- Harry Falk

"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

"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog."
-- Franklin P. Jones

Canine Words of Wisdom (Quotations)

"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

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures. They give unconditional
love. For me they are the role model for being alive."
-- Gilda Radner, (1946 - 1989) US actress

"My little dog---a heartbeat at my feet."
-- Edith Wharton

"A piece of grass a day keeps the vet away"
-- Unknown Dog

"A dog wags its tail with its heart"
-- Martin Buxbaum

"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

"My goal in life is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am."
-- Toby & Eileen Green

"When a dog wags her tail and barks at the same time, how do you know
which end to believe?"
-- Anonymous

"She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks."
-- Queen Victoria.

"Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend."
-- Corey Ford, American writer

"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will
ever be."
-- Konrad Lorenz

"A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be
persuaded to go for a walk."
-- O. A. Battista

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three
times before lying down."
-- Roger Caras

"A good dog deserves a good home."
-- Proverb

"There's just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come
home, they're thrilled to see you. They're good for the ego."
-- Janet Schnellman

"I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes
longer."
-- Barbara Woodhouse

"You can't keep a good man down -- or an over affectionate dog."
-- Anonymous

"I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me than I've ever
received from kissing dogs."
-- Barbara Woodhouse

"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

"It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk."
-- Anonymous

"Acquiring a dog, may be the only time a person gets to choose a
relative."
-- unknown

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


"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."
Quoted from a book called Intimate Nature: the bond between women and
animals. The book is a collection of stories, poems, etc. by various
women authors. This quote is from a story by Judith Collas entitled
"Change of Life".

Lamb Agility!

Just when you thought you had seen it all, or for some of you - you thought you trained it all!

Lamb Agility!

See Spot Run!

Makes you think you are seeing spots before you eyes!

A polka-dot Labrador Retriever!

More Canine Quotations

More Canine Quotations

"There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a
truly faithful dog."
-- Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) Mathematician and meteorologist.

"In order to keep a true perspective on one's importance, everyone
should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore
him."
--Dereke Bruce

"I have found that when you are deeply troubled there are things you
get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get
from no other source."
--Doris Day, Actress

"About dogs.... They 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 Jerome (1859-1927), Humorist and writer

"If you don't give your dog a job, he will become self-employed"
-- Unknown

"May the wind always be at your back, and a Kerry on the end of your
lead."
-- Irish blessing

"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
-- Unknown

"A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog."
-- Chas Doran

"If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin'
somebody else's dog around."
-- Anonymous

"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his
water bowl."
-- Penny Ward Moser

"The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage."
-- Danish Proverb

"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or
fight its enemies is lunch."
-- Michael Friedman

"Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all
night wondering if there really is a Dog?"
-- Unknown

"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and
give the wrong answers."
-- Unknown

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and
your dog would go in."
-- Mark Twain

Dog Quotes

I have to admit I am a sucker for quotations... so you will see batches of them appearing here. Read them or skip over them... your choice!

Dog Quotations

"Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant."
-- Unknown

"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies."
-- Gene Hill

"In dog years, I'm dead."
-- Unknown

"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

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a
dog, it's too dark to read."
-- Groucho Marx

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of
dogs."
-- Aldous Huxley

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three
times before lying down."
-- Robert Benchley

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think
that's how dogs spend their lives."
-- Sue Murphy

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the
guts to bite people themselves."
-- August Strindberg

"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

"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

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious
cult."
-- Rita Rudner

"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

"You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person
with pets."
-- Nora Ephron

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are
wonderful."
-- Ann Landers

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

"Of all the things I miss from veterinary practice, puppy breath is one
of the most fond memories!"
-- Dr. Tom Cat

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

-- Ben Williams

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
-- Edward Abbey

"Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it
look like the dog did it."
-- Unknown

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his
tail."
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw, aka Josh Billings

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the
dog does."
-- Christopher Morley

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves
himself."
-- Josh Billings

"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be."
-- Holbrook Jackson

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
-- Andrew A. Rooney

"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

"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

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great
Dane."
-- Smiley Blanton

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed
contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are
nuts."
-- John Steinbeck

"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise."
-- Unknown

Article worth reading

Some of you may have seen this article before, but it is one of those that is worth reading over and over again - particularly breeders and show folk (myself included).

Rosettes to Ruin: Making & Breaking Dogs in the Show Ring

A New Year's Resolution!

I wonder if there are any rules about making a New Year's Resolution on March 1st??

I have been remiss in keeping this blog up to date, but I have to admit it is for selfish reasons. I have started training my own dogs again and I have to make a decision between them and the rest of the world.

Do you want to guess who wins?

At least I will try... I have good intentions for this blog - to share information about dogs in the Raleigh/Durham area!