“I don’t know, I just feel like my mental health is just better with a dog.”

“I think I walk him more than anybody else in the family at this point because I take him for his morning walk. I’m an early riser and he gets up with me and we kind of just hang out together. He has his breakfast. I have my coffee then we go for a walk.”

“I had never really thought of myself as a dog person.”  

  “ He’s full of life, full of love, he loves everything”  

    “She’s sweet, loyal, tender, and loving, but also brilliant and fun.”  

  “He walks by someone and expects them to stop for him…when he sees we are getting ready to leave he gets sad.”

“We were sitting in here, just kinda waiting and I remember seeing Cindy, a volunteer that works through CPL, kinda walking up holding this little perfect puppy, like Oh My God! That’s Owen.”

“‘Don’t pits make the best pets ever? And it’s usually some other pitbull owner and the answer is yes, yeah they’re fantastic.”

“There is nothing better than coming home and like whatever kind of day you had you come home to two wagging butts.”

“I think he seems to have some sense that we are capable of suffering and that his job is to alleviate that suffering.”

“While he’s not officially a working dog, we run a pretty small farm at home in addition to me being the farmer here on campus.”

“He’s always there; he’s a figure of great patience, great love, he’s dependable…. steady”

“On one side, the dog’s a parasite. On the other, people get their emotional exploitation out of the dog too.”

  “Having him around…often makes me smile, especially when he is happy. It’s very contagious.”  

“They just see the world in a different way than we do. It doesn’t make them better. It doesn’t make them worse. It just makes them interesting.”

  “I worry about him like the kids…we’ve always been close. He’s always been like that kid to me.”