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The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.

Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.

Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

I'm afraid of animals.

Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.

Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.