Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
"Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely so openly so unambivalently is for many children a unique and lasting experience."
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"Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely so openly so unambivalently is for many children a unique and lasting experience."
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
"We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but does not show it. What a dog feels, a dog shows, and, conversely, what a dog shows, a dog actually does feel."
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
"Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment."
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
"We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us."
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
"(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even care what drives us crazy!"
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
"Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core."
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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