Au Secours!

"Dogs are miracles with paws."
~Attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

The Gentle Giant Makes a Friend

"Every animal knows more than you do." 

- Native American Proverb 

Sofia in her Christmas Sweater

"Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend."

~Corey Ford

Stalking Chicho

"Rambunctious, rumbustious, delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting." 

-Dr. Ian Dunbar

Black Nose

"And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is — but, then, he's the one who paid for it."

-Julia Glass

A Good Reason for a lot of Fence

"Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!" 

-Groucho Marx

Ragdog

"I know that dogs are pack animals, but it's difficult to imagine a pack of standard poodles . . . and if there was such a thing as a pack of standard poodles, where would they rove to? Bloomingdales?" 
- Yvonne Clifford

Sad Face

"Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin

Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in."

-Arthur Guiterman

Sugar

"Where did it come from, and at what moment in time did it walk out of the  deserts and forest to sleep at the foot of man?"     
-Mordecai Siegal 

Parking Only

"The biggest dog has been a pup."

- Joaquin Miller

Some dogs Love the Camera

"Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!"
- Groucho Marx

Brown Dog on a Roof

"All trees have bark.

All dogs bark.

Therefore, all dogs are trees.

The fallacy of barking up the wrong tree."

-Unknown

Chicho Looking Pretty at Stories

"You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor."

-Sir Walter Scott

Scardey Cat

"To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog." 

- German Proverb

Poor Baby!

"Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night."

-Bram Stoker

The Shaker

"The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog." 
-Ambrose Bierce

Regal Puguahua

Q: If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
A: A dog, so my wife would love me more.”
-Oscar de la Renta

Desperation

"The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth."
-W.B.Koehler

Scary Smile

"I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter..."
-Vincent Van Gogh

Chicho in the Doghouse

"Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage."
- Agnes Repplier 

Cat with Delusions of Grandeur

"The cat is a dilettante in fur."
-Theophile Gautier

Lola & Tinkerbell

"Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors."
-Benjamin Cheever

Dog in a Cement Yard

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." 
-Fran Lebowitz

2 Killer Chihuahuas

"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!" 
-- Anne Tyler

Thirsty Chicho

If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the sky. 
~ Old Proverb

The Opera Singer

"When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary." 
~ Honore de Balzac

Pretty Little Dog

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
-Samuel Butler

At the Mobile Dog Wash

"Thus every dog at last will have his day - 
He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow;
The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow."
-Peter Pindar

Two Dogs Saying 'How You Doin?'

"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." 
--Franklin P. Jones

Puppy Trying to Break Away

"Every dog has his day."
-Miguel de Cervantes

Golden Eye

"When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'" 
- Rudyard Kipling

Heeere's Johnny!

"Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways."
-Ogden Nash

On the Lam

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" 
--M. Facklam

Another Little White Dog Behind a Fence

"That indefatigable and unsavory engine of pollution, the dog."
-John Sparrow

Chicho Needs a Coffee

"God Made the earth, the sky and the water, the moon and the sun. He made man and bird and beast. But He didn't make the dog. He already had one."
-Native American saying

Little Dog, Big Teeth

"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.  They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death.  Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying."
-George Bird Evans

Chango Cutie

Q: Why didn't the dog speak to his foot?
A: Because it's not polite to talk back to your paw!

A Nose by any Other Name...

~I bought a dog the other day... I named him Stay. It's fun to call him... "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing. 
-Steven Wright 

Mopsy in the Clink

A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel.
-Portuguese Proverb

Shiny Puppy

"There's no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
-Charles Schultz

Cue Sarah McLachlan

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
-Dereke Bruce

At Stories on Sunset

"About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog."
- Edgar Watson Houe

Suspicious Basset

"I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"
 - Alexander Pope

Bully Rasberry

"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go." 
- Winston Churchill

The Scream

"Dogs wait for us faithfully."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Canine Erectus

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"The other day I saw two dogs walk over to a parking meter. One of them says to the other, "How do you like that? Pay toilets!"
-Dave Starr

The Street Sweeper

"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
- Mordecai Siegal