Dog Tales Quotes

“Possibly she insists upon being called a Scottish terrier because, at the moment, Scottish terriers are high in fashion — it is queer, isn’t it that there should be fashions in dogs? Scotties are a sane style; they are, so to say, serviceable and they give good wear. They have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile — in which case the car itself knows that it has been in a fight.”
― Dorothy Parker, Dog Tales: Classic Stories About Smart Dogs

“We would go out for a little walk, he and I, and my feet would never be on the ground during the entire excursion. Indoors, he developed the habit of sofa-eating: he became, indeed, a Veritable addict. Give that dog an ordinary sofa, such as your furniture dealer would be glad to le you have for a nominal sum, and he could make a whole meal off it. If you ran out of sofas he would be philosophical about the matter — he was always delightfully good-humored — and make a light snack of a chintz-covered arm-chair. Once, I recall, he went a-gypsying and used a set of Dickens, the one with the Cruikshank illustrations, for a picnic lunch.”
― Dorothy Parker, Dog Tales: Classic Stories About Smart Dogs