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I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel.

At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

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.