Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You

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The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother—and they'll settle for a puppy every time." – Winston Pendleton, author of Pursuit of Happiness Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us, and make our lives a little brighter, and they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow." – Dan Gemeinhart, author of The Honest Truth What makes these findings important, beyond advancing science, is their implications for dogs' welfare, he argues. But a new book argues that, when it comes to dogs, the word is necessary to understanding what has made the relationship between humans and our best friends one of the most significant interspecies partnerships in history. If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life." – Roger Caras, author of A Dog Is Listening: The Way Some of Our Closest Friends View Us

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog." – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it." – Helen Thomson, writer and consultant with New Scientist Magazine and Best Science Journalist in the British Journalism Awards Science Direct: “Scent of the familiar: An fMRI study of canine brain responses to familiar and unfamiliar human and dog odors.”Zazie: For those of us who live with pet dogs, what are the implications of dogs’ capacity for love in terms of how we care for them? If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist Clive Wynne, founder the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, makes the case in "Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You." The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog." – George Graham Vest, U.S. Senator from Missouri

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." – Robert Benchley, humorist and actor Current Biology: “Voice-Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI.” It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass." – Rodney Dangerfield, American stand-up comic, actor, producer, screenwriter, musician, and author Finding out how variation of expressions of human orientated behaviour between individual dogs, within breeds, relates to different gene developments and whether they had the AA oxytocin receptor gene versus the GG or the AG oxytocin receptor gene but that breed could also impact on how the peptide oxytocin levels interrelated with different gene combinations and behaviour responses. It would be really interesting to follow more studies in this area.Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.