Talking Dog

“It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks
better than other folks do.”
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna

“Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleased-ness. (Really, it is very clever of humans to understand a wagging tail at all, as they have no tails of their own.)”
Dodie Smitih, 101 Dalmatians

“He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate,
and that slows him down.”
John Steinbeck, about his poodle

Customer: "Has this dog a good pedigree?"
Shop Owner: "Has he? Say, if that dog could talk,
he wouldn't speak to either of us."
Unknown Author

I went to the cinema the other day and in the front row was an old man and with him was his dog. It was a sad funny kind of film, you know the type. In the sad part, the dog cried his eyes out and in the funny part, the dog laughed its head off. This happened all the way through the film. After the film ended, I decided to go and speak to the man. "That's the most amazing thing I've seen," I said. "That dog really seemed to enjoy the film." The man turned to me and said, "Yeah, it is. He hated the book."
Unknown Author

“One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.”
Unknown Author

“The dog has an absolutely uncanny knack of knowing what we are thinking, even of what we are feeling.”
Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald