Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.
Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered.
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
The more I know about men the more I like dogs.
You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'
People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too.
People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
'Best in Show' legitimized me, and it was a great experience in Vancouver for six weeks with all those dogs!
My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.
I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.
My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.
When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
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.
When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Owners sometimes think their dogs have already suffered so much that they couldn't possibly inflict any more criticism. Yet it's that very firm, effective training that would make those dogs happier and more secure.
The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does.
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world.
