I'm disabled and out of work so I can't afford to do much in the donation arena, but I posted the site on my Facebook page. My page isn't public, but if I know my relatives, they'll share it out pretty generously.
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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, Notebooks, 1912
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From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.
--- Mabel Louise Robinson
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Dogs are miracles with paws.
--- Attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
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I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.
--- George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs
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Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.
--- Holbrook Jackson
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The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.
--- Author Unknown
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Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
--- Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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My little dog--- a heartbeat at my feet.
--- Edith Wharton
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
--- George Eliot
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I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
--- Gilda Radner
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
--- Agnes Repplier
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One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.
--- Author Unknown
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Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
--- Franklin P. Jones
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I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.
--- W. Dayton Wedgefarth
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When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
--- David Starr Jordan
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.
--- Corey Ford
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With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.
--- Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs
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The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man.
--- Robertson Davies
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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
--- Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter
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If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
--- Andy Rooney
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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
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If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
--- Will Rogers
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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
--- Mme. de Staël
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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
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
--- Aldous Huxley
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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
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Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.
--- Sue Murphy
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.
--- Mark Twain, letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
--- Karel Čapek
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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.
--- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog"
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The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.
--- Henry Ward Beecher
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's.
--- Polish Proverb
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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
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
--- Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849
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Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.
--- Oxford Union Society, London, Rule 46
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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
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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
--- Christopher Morley
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater... suggest that he wear a tail.
--- Fran Lebowitz
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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
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
--- Ogden Nash
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Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.
--- Gene Hill
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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
--- Author Unknown
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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
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The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother--- and they'll settle for a puppy every time.
--- Winston Pendelton
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Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
--- Lewis Grizzard
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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.
--- Emily Dickinson
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
--- Woodrow Wilson
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Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
--- Albert Payson Terhune
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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
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
--- Edward Abbey
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I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl.
--- Penny Ward Moser
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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
--- Will Rogers
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I named my dog Stay so I can say, "Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay."
--- Steven Wright
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When a dog wants to hang out the "Do Not Disturb" sign, as all of us do now and then, he is regarded as a traitor to his species.
--- Ramona C. Albert
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The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
--- Margo Kaufman
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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
--- Robert Benchley
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Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
--- Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
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Labradors [are] lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning.
--- Norman Strung
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Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on.
--- Colette
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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday.
--- George Bernard Shaw
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The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
--- Anonymous
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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
--- Ann Landers
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
--- Will Rogers
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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
--- Ben Williams
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
--- Josh Billings
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
--- Andy Rooney
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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
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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
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
---Rita Rudner
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
--- Robert Benchley
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Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
--- Franklin P. Jones
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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
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If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise
--- Unknown
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My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money.
--- Joe Weinstein
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Ever consider what our dogs 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
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
--- Robert A. Heinlein
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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
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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
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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
--- Roger Caras
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If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.
--- Phil Pastoret
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My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
--- Unknown
