Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs by Jeffery Moussaieff Masson. After reading Alexander Horowitz's Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know; every other non-scientific dog book I read is for one sole purpose- to feel good!!
This is a highly quotable book with constant dose of goosebumps and of course, Max got more than his quota of kisses.
"Can we not learn, as Dogs evidently have, that it is possible to live with another species without destroying them, eating them, exploiting them, or disdaining them?" - The greatest lesson we can learn from Dogs
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. All wolves, foxes, jackals, and species of cat genus, when kept tame, are most eaget to attact poultry, sheep, and pigs; and this tendency has been incurable in dogs which have been bought home as puppies from countries, such as Tierra del Fuego and Australia, where the savages do not keep these domestic animals. How rarely, on the other hand, do our civilized dogs, even when quite young, require to be taught not to attack poultry, sheep, and pigs. - The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
| And when we bury our face in our hands and wish we had never been born, they don’t sit up very straight and observe that we have brought it all upon ourselves.They don't even hope it will be warning to us. But they come up softly, and shove their heads against us... he looks up with his big, true eyes, and says with them. "Well, you've always got me, you know. We'll go through the world together, and always stand by each other, won't we" - Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome |
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. All wolves, foxes, jackals, and species of cat genus, when kept tame, are most eaget to attact poultry, sheep, and pigs; and this tendency has been incurable in dogs which have been bought home as puppies from countries, such as Tierra del Fuego and Australia, where the savages do not keep these domestic animals. How rarely, on the other hand, do our civilized dogs, even when quite young, require to be taught not to attack poultry, sheep, and pigs. - The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
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