FastSaying

I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog Orson died, I did this very male thing of 'It's just a dog and I'll just move on.' I was very slow to grasp the emotion. But Orson is the reason I started writing about dogs.

Jon Katz

Jon Katz

AboutAlwaysDidDiedDogDogsEmotionEmotionsGraspJustMaleMoveMove OnPeopleReasonRevealingSlowStartedStruggledThemThingThoseVeryWhoWriting

Related Quotes

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.
— Jon Katz
AboutAnimalsCourse
We wanted to make it patriotic, yet also grasp the speed at which these guys move.
— Jon Wooten
GraspGuysMove
Someone who is wrongfully accused needs to do their best to put it behind them and move on.
— Jared Polis
AccusedBehindBest
Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10.
— Jon Katz
AggressiveAttackBurglar
I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.
— Jon Katz
AlwaysAnotherBecause