Dog Training Quotes

“My Labrador retriever had a nervous breakdown.
I kept throwing him a boomerang.”
Nick Arnette

“Dogs travel hundreds of miles during their lifetime responding
to such commands as "come" and "fetch."
Stephen Baker

“Lassie looked brilliant, in part because the farm family she lived with was made up of idiots. Remember? One of them was always getting pinned under the tractor, and Lassie was always rushing back to the farmhouse to alert the other ones. She'd whimper and tug at their sleeves, and they'd always waste precious minutes saying things: "Do you think something's wrong? Do you think she wants us to follow her? What is it, girl?" as if this had never happened before, instead of every week. What with all the time these people spent pinned under the tractor, I don't see how they managed to grow any crops whatsoever. They probably got by on federal crop supports, which Lassie filed the applications for.”
Dave Barry

My most satisfying aspect of animal training is a very simple moment. After a show when I leave the stage door... and there is a crowd gathered, sometimes I hear someone say the following and it makes it all worthwhile. "How did they make that dog do that?" I smile because I am the
only "they" and I do it with love.
William Berloni, dog trainer

“Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, after he was saved by a Newfoundland from slipping on his ship and falling overboard. He couldn’t swim and the dog kept him above water until he was rescued.

“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come
back when you go out the door without them.”
Stanley Coren, dog psychologist

“I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.”
Charles Darwin