Frances Power Cobbe on Dogs

“I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.”

“The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.”