37 Quotes by Patricia McConnell

[Some dogs] develop blood feuds with other dogs that are so serious that the only silver lining is a dog's inability to build nuclear weapons in the backyard. -- Patricia McConnell, A Tale of Two Species

Perhaps you've taught your dog to sit, and you want to show this off to your friends, ... You say, 'Sit,' but he just looks at you." ()

One of the biggest problems I see are dogs who don't have a lot of emotional control and frustration tolerance. If dogs are going to live in our houses as family members, they need to learn how to physiologically handle spiraling emotions, not react like a 2-year-old who drops an ice-cream cone." ()

Science has always been uncomfortable with emotions, so there's a real bias against studying domestic animals. Especially canines that may sleep in our beds and eat off our plates and otherwise get spoiled.

Domestic dogs follow humans like a laser and watch the behavior of their humans with a focus that is astounding, ... This opens up big and interesting questions about how social intelligence is passed on genetically." ()

I'm virtually certain that it will be finalized." ()

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.