American - Author | September 13, 1931 -
Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.
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Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
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Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it.
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When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.
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No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.
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Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.
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To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.
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From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.
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When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.
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The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.
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The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.
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