MY DOGS

.....'Let us be honest here: our dogs are the only creatures on earth that love us more than we love ourselves'.........
....'It is a cruel fact of life that we are fated to outlast the faithful dogs who came to us as babies. They frisk and scamper for a few years, they insinuate their way into our hearts, they grow grey round the muzzle, they turn into doddery old mutts with mange and wonky hips;......... and, in little more than a decade, their race is run, while we owners are left to miss and mourn' - VAL HENNESSY

'Dogs perch on the edge of understanding, their bright eyes polished by the yearning to comprehend' - JOHN UPDIKE