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

I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.

Dogs do have feelings, I gather.

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.

I have an issue with dogs - I can't pick up after them. It's nothing personal; it just makes me feel like a servant.