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I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

I have always wanted a dog, but we don't have anyone to care for it.

I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

People simply shouldn't buy puppies without a breeding certificate.

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

I also like men who like dogs. I couldn't date a man who doesn't like my dog.

Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.

I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow me to have any more than that. But I have lots of dogs. I love the dogs. I breed them. I always have a puppy coming. And I show dogs. I show German shepherds.