A Girl and Her Dogs

I lie belly-up
In the sunshine, happier than
You ever will be.

Today I sniffed
Many dog butts — I celebrate
By kissing your face.

I sound the alarm!
Paperboy — come to kill us all —
Look! Look! Look! Look! Look!

I sound the alarm!
Garbage man — come to kill us all —
Look! Look! Look! Look! Look!

I lift my leg and
Whiz on each bush. Hello, Spot —
Sniff this and weep.

I Hate my choke chain —
Look, world, they strangle me! Ack
Ack Ack Ack Ack Ack!

Sleeping here, my chin
On your foot — no greater bliss — well,
Maybe catching cats.

Look in my eyes and
Deny it. No human could
Love you as much I do.

Anonymous

Sleeping with your Dog

Now I lay me down to sleep,
The king-size bed is soft and deep.
I sleep right in the center groove
My human being can hardly move!

I’ve trapped her legs, she’s tucked in tight
And here is where I pass the night
No one disturbs me or dares intrude
Till morning comes and “I want food!”

I sneak up slowly to begin
my nibbles on my human’s chin.
She wakes up quickly,
I have sharp teeth-
I’m a puppy, don’t you see?

For the morning’s here
and it’s time to play
I always seem to get my way.

So thank you Lord for giving me
This human person that I see.
The one who hugs and holds me tight
And shares her bed with me at night!

Unknown

When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Edward Abbey

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

~Ben Williams

“Dogs are our link to paradise.

They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden,

where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.”

- Milan Kundera

“I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn’t excited to meet my dog.

I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother.”

- Bonnie Schacter, Founder of the Single Pet Owner’s Society Singles Group

“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semihuman.

The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”

- Edward Hoagland

“Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well.”

- Bonnie Wilcox ‘Old Dogs, Old Friends’

My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet.

–Edith Wharton.

Outside of a dog, a man’s best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
–Groucho Marx.