Chaser Quotes

“When you get a pet, sooner or later you get a broken heart. Your heart gets whole when you can risk its being broken again.”
― John W. Pilley, Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words

“There was no doubt about it. Chaser had learned Puddin the pony’s name in a single trial. Identifying the new object correctly after hearing its name only once indicated that Chaser had achieved a form of referential understanding. Somehow she had grasped the idea that objects can have names.”
― John W. Pilley, Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words

“spans of our pets cause us a lot of grief, but they also ground us in a natural cycle of life and death and, if we can accept it, renewal. The spirit of our relationship with one pet lives on in and shapes the spirit of our relationship with another pet, even years later.”
― John W. Pilley, Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words

“Border collies' sensitivity to the human voice compliments one of their most remarkable instinctual gifts, the "eye".”
― John W. Pilley, Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words

“The spirit of our relationship with one pet lives on in and shapes the spirit of our relationship with another pet, even years later.”
― John W. Pilley, Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words