"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt

, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

"What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine

by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up

 The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs."

"You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast,

not because she's too stupid to learn how but because she's too smart to bother."