The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No other animal bonds to a human being the way a dog does. And I suspect there is no other animal to which human beings can bond the way we can bond to a dog.
If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.
Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.
Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.
People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
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