One Girl and Her Dogs Quotes

“Without my dogs I would be a different person. To them I owe it all.”
― Emma Gray, One Girl And Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere

“Rudyard Kipling once said, ‘Beware of giving your heart to a dog to tear.’ It is so true: when you take on a dog to love, you make yourself vulnerable to so much heartbreak.”
― Emma Gray, One Girl And Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere

“when I’m on the farm with the animals for company, I feel – no, it’s stronger than that, I know – that I am wanted.”
― Emma Gray, One Girl And Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere

“And once we were on the subject of dogs, well, I cold probably talk for ever.”
― Emma Gray, One Girl and Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere

“Fallowlees holds the key to that ‘other life’, the ‘more-than-this’ life I always sensed was out there for me.”
― Emma Gray, One Girl and Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere

“Alfie is the goon in the team: think of Scooby-Doo with the brains of Homer Simpson. People often can’t believe he’s a collie because he is as smooth as a piglet and built like a lurcher with long legs and a deep chest. He is a true athlete and can run for miles and miles without tiring. Dog owners call it ‘having a good engine.’ He is obedient to the last – but sometimes ‘obedient’ can be another word for ‘stupid.’ If I ask him to lie down and get side-tracked, he will stay glued to the very spot until eventually I come looking for him ten minutes later. I would take sheep out the same gate every day for a week and on day seven Alfie would still need to be told what to do. But he is a great work dog and very honest, and no matter what situation he gets into he is always listening for my commands and has full faith that I will not see him wrong.”
― Emma Gray, One Girl and Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere

“From the word go, the two of us have been a team. I was not an experienced trainer, but she and I worked through it all together, both learning as we went. She is the most loyal dog I will ever own. She will sit and gaze into my eyes. I am her world. She does not have the strength of some sheepdogs, but what she lacks in raw power she more than makes up for in pure effort. If I were to set her an impossible task, she would persevere to her last breath rather than let me down. Whether we are out checking the sheep, gathering lambs for dosing or just sitting together in my car, having lunch and listening to Radio 1, we are inseparable. I doubt I will ever own another dog like her.”
― Emma Gray, One Girl and Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere

“Ah, I was thinking of you the other day. There’s a little farm just a few mile from me that’s come up for let.’ He looks at me and pauses, sensing my interest.

‘Go on’

‘Aye, it’s through the National Trust. They call it Fallowlees. You’re probably not bothered now, but you can always give them a ring and get the particulars. Mind, it’s a rough sort of spot, very remote, no mains electric, stuck in the trees.’

‘Sounds like it’ll suit me down to the ground,’ I say, with a giggle, half joking. But the moment he’s gone I go and look up the number for the National Trust.”
― Emma Gray, One Girl and Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere