Cats Will Outsmart Dogs Every Time.

A Dog Has No Use For Fancy Cars Or Big Homes Or Designer Clothes. Status Symbols Mean Nothing To Him. A Waterlogged Stick Will Do Just Fine. A Dog Judges Others Not By Their Color Or Creed Or Class But By Who They Are Inside. A Dog Doesn't Care If You're Rich Or Poor, Educated Or Illiterate, Clever Or Dull. Give Him Your Heart And He Will Give You His.

Mostly, He Taught Me About Friendship And Selflessness And, Above All Else, Unwavering Loyalty.

In A Dog's Life, Some Plaster Would Fall, Some Cushions Would Open, Some Rugs Would Shred. Like Any Relationship, This One Had Its Costs. They Were Costs We Came To Accept And Balance Against The Joy And Amusement And Protection And Companionship He Gave Us.

Then I Dropped My Forehead Against His And Sat There For A Long Time, As If I Could Telegraph A Message Through Our Two Skulls, From My Brain To His. I Wanted To Make Him Understand Some Things. You Know All That Stuff We’ve Always Said About You?” I Whispered. “what A Total Pain You Are? Don’t Believe It. Don’t Believe It For A Minute, Marley.” He Needed To Know That, And Something More, Too. There Was Something I Had Never Told Him, That No One Ever Had. I Wanted Him To Hear It Before He Went. Marley,” I Said. “you Are A Great Dog.

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.