Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.

All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.

Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.

In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.

As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.