Was flipping through Why Dogs are Better than Cats (an incendiary title if there ever was one) and it said:

"A dog's love is expressed as loyalty, and this is not an easy concept for cat people to understand because the cat equivalent of loyalty is merely recognition. True loyalty is trust and devotion born of friendship and respect. Dogs believe in us, not because to them we seem like gods, but because to them we are their family; thus they can believe they can always count on our unconditional love."

I am trying hard to feel worthy of that after being conditioned to expect very little out of a recent toxic relationship myself. His reflexes imply he has been kicked, which breaks my heart, but that is how I feel, too.

Glad you and your Goldie have found eachother!

You all know where I stand on the Dog/Cat supremacy scale but I will add a cautionary word to the ladies in particular.  Do not think that a dog can replace a man.  It is very very tempting to do so.  There are so many ways in which they seem more desirable but try to allow for men as well as dogs in your circle of intimates.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

You hear so much you can tell how much control a person has over their own lives by how their dog responds to them. Ideally, the right people should be drawn to a person with a happy, independent but attentive, healthy dog.

I know this LOOKS cruel, but our Siberian Husky does like the cold and the snow...here's a picture of him curled up on the back porch during the our "blizzard" this past week. We did bring him in one night though because it was pretty cold.

Jordan .