Wag Quotes

“If humans stopped worrying so much about the cute appearance and ‘breed pureness’ of puppies, the resulting canine population would be healthier, and the dogs would be happier too.” — PETE WEDDERBURN,”
― Zazie Todd, Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

“We know our pets have thoughts and feelings, including about us. And that means we have an even greater responsibility to take care of them in ways that recognize them for what they are—clever beings who become attached to us and have complex needs of their own.”
― Zazie Todd, Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

“decided early on that my ideal dog would be like Diefenbaker in the TV show Due South, which was popular in the UK where I was living.”
― Zazie Todd, Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

“Unfortunately, when people use outdated methods to train dogs, perhaps because they don’t realize science recommends reward-based methods, they are using methods that rely on fear and pain. It’s just a tap, a correction, or information, they say. But prong collars, choke collars, leash corrections, electronic collars, and alpha rolls (rolling the dog on their back and holding them there until they stop moving) work because they are painful or fearful for the dog. These are aversive methods.”
― Zazie Todd, Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

“Whereas humans are said to hear a range from about 20 to 20,000 hertz, dogs hear much higher frequencies, from about 67 to 45,000 hertz.”
― Zazie Todd, Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

“A dog’s vision is 20/75 compared with our 20/20, meaning that what we see at 75 feet (23 meters), the dog can only see at 20 feet (6 meters).4 They see the world in yellows and blues, rather like a person with red-green color blindness”
― Zazie Todd, Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy