Love of Spaniels Quotes

“That afternoon, on a snowy hillside strewn with logging slash, she flushed and fetched a brace of grouse. Our hunt finished, we trudged home along the logging path as slivers of pink and yellow glowed in the gray western sky. I walked loose-limbed and weary, basking in the sense that I understood, really understood, what it meant to collaborate with a dog. To expand my instincts in partnership with a creature whose talents surpassed mine. To let her joyousness, her simplicity, rub off on me. The shed mind and intellect for a time, to soak up the hunt, to simply be myself.”
― Charles Fergus, Love of Spaniels: The Ultimate Tribute to Cockers, Springers, and Other Great Spaniels

“Dogs when happy are perfectly happy; and even when things go against them, they assume the best and keep up a cheerful attitude towards life: they are the first Christian Scientists in history. - Richard Burton, Three of a Kind”
― Todd R. Berger, Love of Spaniels: The Ultimate Tribute to Cockers, Springers, and Other Great Spaniels

“The cocker had a way of looking up at you, head perked a little to one side, one ear drooping properly forward but the other turned coquettishly back, and with an arch, quizzical expression of countenance which had all the effect of a keen appreciation of the humors of life; and was potent to draw out affection in everyone save those unfortunates condemned by an inscrutable fate to indifference toward man's best friend among brute kind. - Richard Burton, Three of a Kind”
― Todd R. Berger, Love of Spaniels: The Ultimate Tribute to Cockers, Springers, and Other Great Spaniels