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" 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. "
Family
Dog
Group
" Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them. "
Escape
Understand
Prey
" As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog. "
Sympathy
People
Me
" Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes. "
Wolves
Competition
Animal
" Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone. "
Alone
Fear
Belonging
" Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don't like. "
Window
Cats
See
" Dogs are a window on the natural world. "
Dogs
Natural
Window
" 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. "
Together
People
Love
" 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. "
Never
Calm
Need
" 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. "
Bad
Every Day
Day
" Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others. "
Dogs
Dog
Group
" 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. "
Time
Survival
Relationships
" Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment. "
Human
Extinction
Environment
" I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups. "
Always
Thought
Interesting
" I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young. "
Young
Aging
Die
" If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species. "
Civilization
You
Your
" In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs. "
More
Important
Deer
" I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling. "
Dog
Feeling
Mind
" Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey. "
Feelings
Capture
Cat
" 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. "
Sleep
Sleeping
Savannah
" Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak. "
Ignorant
Even
Refer
" Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it. "
Reason
People
Once
" One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press. "
Responsible
Things
Best
" 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. "
Train
Up
Dog
" People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other. "
Dogs
Accept
Us
" People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals. "
Animals
Thought
Think
" Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace. "
Pure
Boredom
Dogs
" The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa. "
Dogs
Without
Better
" The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple. "
Enough
Relationships
Simple
" The story of cats is a story of meat. "
Cats
Meat
Story
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