Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.
Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
Sometimes, people will just never love dogs.
Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.
I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.
Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?
I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.
A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
I see dog stories as an antidote to the dire news that nothing is ever going to get better.