Dogs
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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.
Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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.
There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things - hot dogs and apple pie - and ignoring the Chinese offerings.
Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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