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Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.

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.

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.

No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

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.

I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.