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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

All the members of the dog family – domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes – are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory – you can’t have others taking it from you, because then you won’t have enough food.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future… human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Veterinarians are essential allies to the millions of us who experience the human-animal bond.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK… They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

People acquire a dog, don’t understand it, can’t train it, get fed up, and… offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog… whose task was to keep me from drowning.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Dogs who live in each other’s company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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