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Dogs Are Great. Bad Dogs, If You Can Really Call Them That, Are Perhaps The Greatest Of Them All.

In A World Of Bosses, You Are Your Own Master

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. It Is Amazing How Much Love And Laughter They Bring Into Our Lives And Even How Much Closer We Become With Each Other Because Of Them.

Many Of The Qualities That Come So Effortlessly To Dogs - Loyalty, Devotion, Selflessness, Unflagging Optimism, Unqualified Love - Can Be Elusive To Humans.

Then I Dropped My Forehead Against His And Sat There For A Long Time, As If I Could Telegraph A Message Through Our Two Skulls, From My Brain To His. I Wanted To Make Him Understand Some Things. You Know All That Stuff We’ve Always Said About You?” I Whispered. “what A Total Pain You Are? Don’t Believe It. Don’t Believe It For A Minute, Marley.” He Needed To Know That, And Something More, Too. There Was Something I Had Never Told Him, That No One Ever Had. I Wanted Him To Hear It Before He Went. Marley,” I Said. “you Are A Great Dog.