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I am lucky in marriage and in dogs.
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Dog
Lucky
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Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
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Friendship
Powerful
True Friend
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Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
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Animal
Cows
Dog
Goats
Grumpy
Writing
Animals
Continue
Dogs
Donkeys
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When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.
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Animal
Insightful
Profound
Love Look Way
Love Chance Look
Gives
To Love
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Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
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Faith
Pet
Choices
Judgment
Responsibility
Life Faith Good
Decisions
Taking
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Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
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Impact
Inexplicable
Lifetime
Our Lives
Particular
Dogs
Intersect
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There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.
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Animal
Communicate
Evidence
Sophisticated
Deciding
Task
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Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.
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Creativity
Evil
Passion
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It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.
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Animal
Lasting
Inexorably
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When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.
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Intimate
Lonely
Book Signings
Dogs
Talks
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Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.
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America
Block
Hate
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Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.
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Dog
Emotional
Responsibility
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My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.
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Accepting
Chorus
Contemplative
Foolish
Goats
Greek
Introspective
Life I Am Me
Life Me I Am
Closely
Farm
Remind
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My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control.
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Ability
Animal
Beloved
Communicators
Dog
Expensive
Holistic
Trainers
Control
Beyond
Defied
Simply
Repair
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A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.
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Book
Dog
Inspired
Series
Sheep
Named
Border
Dogs
Farm
Herding
Led
Rural
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Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.
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Species
World People Live
World Live People
Complex
Dogs
Foremost
World Care People
Properly
Requires
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Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.
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Dog
Environment
Gamble
Hard Work
Motivation
Noble
Remains
Rescue
Work Good Hard Work
Predict
Work Good New
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If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.
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Dog
Odds
Life Love Your
Accept
Animals
Life Love Lose
Lose
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Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.
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Unpredictable
Carefully
Dogs
Observed
Inspires
Socialize
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Owners sometimes think their dogs have already suffered so much that they couldn't possibly inflict any more criticism. Yet it's that very firm, effective training that would make those dogs happier and more secure.
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Criticism
Firm
Owners
Secure
Training
Suffered
Dogs
Effective
Happier
Inflict
Possibly
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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.
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Particular
Animals
Dogs
Reflections
Reveal
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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.
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Aggressive
Odds
Owners
Security
Victim
Attack
Burglar
Buy
Chances
Dogs
Fatal
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Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.
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Blank
Family Members
Members
Pure
Animals
Project
Onto
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Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.
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Kids
Movie
Acquire
Dog
Dubious
Furniture
Moved
Rooms
Suburbs
Dogs
Saw
Match
Package
Reasons
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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.
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Dog
Grieving
Healing
Millions
Single
Time Always People
Time Experience People
Time Experience Always
Choose
Frame
Homes
Intensely
Needing
Personal
Personal Experience
Single Time
Time Frame
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Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.
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Animal
Animal World
Goats
Ready
Talk
Show
Cable
Complimentary
Impertinent
Interrupt
Moment
Notice
Talk Show
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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.
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Emotion
Revealing
Male
Dogs
Grasp
Struggled
Move On
Slow
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Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.
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Animal
Communicate
Ready
Simple
Wish
Die
Talk
Time Believe Me
Dogs
Mine
Nor
People Say
Pets
Terms
Some People
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I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.
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Authority
Acquired
Bought
Chose
Companions
Dogs
Hang
Owe
None
Profoundly
Voluntarily
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I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.
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History
Glorious
Joy
Love You
Our Lives
Particular
Whole
Love Time Joy
Love Time History
Come
Animals
Come And Go
Creature
Connection
Leave
Enter
Letting
Spirits
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We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.
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Hurt
School
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Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating.
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Sleep
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There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.
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Emotional
Evidence
Petty
Reason
Revenge
Value Systems
Act
Why
Bad
Grudges
Complex
Read
Dogs
Fact
Hold
In Fact
Seek
Minds
Moods
Neither
Nor
Systems
Value
Ways
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I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
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Best Friend
Friendship
Love
Smile
Powerful
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It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance.
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Anger
Acceptance
Grieving
Guilt
Lying
Remember
Thinking
Great Thinking Me
Why
Animals
Come And Go
Pets
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Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family member or friend of the victim. When a young child is the victim, the attack almost always occurs in the family home, and the perpetrator is usually a 'good' dog that had not previously behaved in a menacing way.
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Bites
Biting
Dog
Majority
Victim
Family Good Home
Child
Almost
Attack
Attacks
Behaved
Belong
Friend
Dogs
Family Member
Great Majority
Member
Menacing
Occurs
Perpetrator
Random
Young Child
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It's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.
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Home
Behavior
Dog
Menace
Natural
Trainers
Absorb
Animals
Chew
Fight
Dogs
Hump
Repetitions
Requires
Takes
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When people buy, rescue, or otherwise acquire a dog from unscrupulous breeders or amateur rescue groups, they are making a decision with ethical consequences. They have a profound responsibility to consider their actions; to gauge the dog's behavior, to train it thoroughly and rigorously, to protect other humans and dogs from harm.
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Acquire
Behavior
Decision
Ethical
Groups
Harm
Humans
Profound
Protect
Rescue
Responsibility
Actions
Consequences
Amateur
Buy
Consider
Dogs
Gauge
Otherwise
Thoroughly
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Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
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Religion
Technology
Cat
Culture
Disconnected
Dog
Economy
Fragmented
Mean
One Thing
Our Lives
Stressful
Ugly
Unfortunate
Come
Very
Live
Thing
Much
Animals
Every
Day
Depend
Every Day
Faithfully
Loving
Struggling
Unconditionally
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Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally , every day, very faithfully.
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Dog
Mean
Struggle
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Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are small amateur operations run out of garages and back yards. Their members may identify strongly with animals as victims, sometimes because of traumas and disappointments in their own lives. Others simply love animals and want to help them.
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Members
Operations
Organized
Rescue
Yards
Amateur
Animals
Nearly
Disappointments
Experienced
Identify
Strongly
Victims
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The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children, plays gently with other dogs, won't jump on the UPS guy, never rolls in gross things, eats only the appropriate food at the right time, and never chews anything not meant for him. This dog does not exist.
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Appropriate
Dog
Enticing
Fantasy
Gross
Right Time
Meant
Exist
Dogs
Eats
Frighten
Gently
Instantly
Jump
Learns
Outdoors
Plays
Ups
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A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretaker. The interrogation and screening can be annoying, but it's also a sign that you're on the right track. A breeder ought to know if you work long hours away from home, have a fenced yard, have kids or other animals, or if you have access to parks.
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Agency
Annoying
Capable
Interrogation
Long Hours
Ought
Parks
Prove
Rescue
Right Track
Screening
Track
Work Good Home
Experienced
Sign
Yard
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It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life around is difficult, but rescuers with commitment and time and a few dollars can radically alter the fate of a dog. And there are millions of dogs - nearly 10 million in the shelter system, many others mistreated in private homes - in need of rescuing.
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Commitment
Dollars
Fate
Millions
Mistreated
Rescue
Shelter
Life Time Culture
Alter
Nearly
Turning
Dogs
Homes
Radically
Troubled
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It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.
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Good Friend
Purpose
Way
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The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?
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Giving
Heart
Real
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