If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.
When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you generally find this between the dog and his master.
I'd rather talk about dogs than about me.
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
Pets are supposedly a great way to meet people.
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.