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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.

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 not into having a pedigree dog.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children, plays gently with other dogs, won't jump on the UPS guy, never rolls in gross things, eats only the appropriate food at the right time, and never chews anything not meant for him. This dog does not exist.

It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish.