A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.
So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.
You can teach an old dog new tricks, and this old dog wants to learn.
Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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.
I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.
Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.