“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.”

  “Dogs are like humans almost to me, so losing a dog feels like the end of the world.”

  “To me the relationship is kind of like with my kids. I always kind of try to be there for the kids and do what they wanted to do when they wanted, and he’s kind of the same way.”

“Well she’s an Australian cattle dog so what are you going to call her other than Sydney. It just sort of came naturally.”

“They do something for me…for a large percentage of people the relationship that you have with a dog is just so significant and so genuine and it’s a loving relationship.”