People Want You To Be Ordinary.

What They Smell Isn't The Emotion Of Fear. What Dogs Can Smell Is The Changes In A Person's Skin That Suggest Fear To The Dog, Anxiety, The Way Your Skin Sweats, The Amount Of Uric Acid That Suddenly Pours Out Of Your Pores.

I Began To Encounter Real-life Stories Of Dogs Protecting Their Wounded Or Dying Or Dead Handler... Or Dogs Refusing To Leave The Bodies Of The People They Were Bonded To, Sitting In Cemeteries For Days Or Sometimes Weeks. You Find These Stories Endlessly.

Dogs Give Us Something Just As We Give Something To Them.

If My Vision Was Good Enough, I'd Be An Astronaut.

Everyone Knows Dogs. Most People Love Dogs. I Think Most American Families Probably Have A Dog, But I Don't Think People Really Realize Or Understand Just How Wonderful And Special Dogs Are.