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I've grown up with dogs and love dogs.

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.

Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.