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It is unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.
- John Ruskin

​Today I adopted a human. It broke my heart to see him so lonely and confused. And suddenly I got his teary eyes to meet mine. I don't like the smell of sad. I wanted to jump on him so bad. He spoke to me with cuteness and I knew it, I had to rescue him!, that human needed me. So I bark with all my strength, I followed him blocks and blocks.
I got close, I could smell his hands. The human smiled for an instant and when he took me in his arms, I started to feel his ice cream heart warmed. I approached his cheeks and felt a tear roll on them. I looked at him deeply and his response was a brilliant smile. I jumped excited into his arms, I promised to behave, love him forever and never part with his side.
How lucky he was to go through that block, down that street and I feel lucky too.
There were so many people walking around and no one was looking at me. All worried, all in their troubles. Glad no one else chose me today I saved a life. Today I adopted a human”

I want my boy to have a dog
or maybe, two or three.
He'll learn from them much easier
than he would from me.
A dog will show him how to love
and bear no grudge or hate.
I'm not so good at that myself,
but dogs will do it straight.

I want my boy to have a dog
to be his pal and friend;
So he may learn that friendship
is faithful to the end.
There never yet has been a dog
who learned to double cross
nor catered to you when you won
then dropped you when you lost.

​Marty Hale

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. 
-Anonymous ​

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face... 
-Ben Williams ​

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. 
-Josh Billings ​

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. 
-Andy Rooney ​

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. 
- Franklin P. Jones ​

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. 
-Unknown ​

My dog is worried about the economy because "Pal" is up to $3.00 a can. that's almost $21.00 in dog money. 
-Joe Weinstein ​

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you  that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. 
-Mark Twain ​

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. 
-Roger Caras ​

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. 
-Phil Pastoret

​"He left no relatives," they said,
"He didn't have a friend
Who knew about his sorry plight --
Was with him at the end!" . . .
And so they raked the stove fires out,
And closed the old shack door,
For grouchy, crusty old Tom Dare
Would open it no more.
Then each went to his own home-fires,
Forgot the lonely shack,
And not a soul was near to see
An old form stumble back
And crouch, sad-eyed, beside the door,
His bony length stretched flat --
He waited for his master's voice,
His friendly little pat.
Days had been lean for Old Tom Dare,
Not food enough for two --
But Old Tom whispered to his dog,
"I'll share along with you,
Since Jennie went away from us
There's been no one to care --
No one but you to give a thought
For lonely old Tom Dare."
And so the two of them had shared,
If it be feast, or fast,
That morning Rover had a bone --
It was their very last,
And there was nothing left for Tom --
It didn't matter so,
Because he lay upon his bed,
And knew that he must Go.
The careless villagers passed by,
As they were pleasure-bound,
But none of them took time to see
The faithful, hungry hound.
Too tired and true to leave his post,
He stayed there to the End . . .
And folks had said of Old Tom Dare,
"He didn't have a friend!"
The days have passed, but no one stops
Of all that come and go,
Old Rover lies beside the door,
Half-hidden in the snow . . .
I know that Old Tom had a friend,
A loyal friend, because
Today I found Old Rover dead,
The bone between his paws.
​-Marty Hale