Year Of The Dog

painting by Lang Shining

I am a dog person. I always had a thing with dogs. Maybe that's because we always had dogs in my family and both me and my sister were raised in the company of adult dogs and puppies. Maybe it's because I was born in the year of the dog according to the chinese calendar. 2006 is also the year of the dog but I haven't experienced any special treatment so far. The first dog I had as an adult is still alive and kicking and will be 13 years old next month. Thomas read an older post I have written about Milou and e-mailed me the following quotes. Some of them are touching and others really funny. Thank u :-)

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

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

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

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

-The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. Andy Rooney

-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

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

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

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

-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

-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

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

-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

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