9 Quotes by Ted Kerasote

And so what do dogs want? They want what they want when they want it. Just like us.

Nobody needs to control or be controlled by cues and signals all the time; living creatures are not a bunch of machines.

How many abused souls – dogs and humans alike – have remained in an unloving place because staying was far less terrifying than leaving?

Without any reinforcement – except that of seeing his peers hunt – he had learned every detail of flushing and retrieving and hadn’t been spooked in the least by the report of the gun.

At a certain point you need to acknowledge that your partner knows more about what makes him or her happy than you do. Stepping back, you let that partner be.

They love being wherever they are. The reason, and it is a great lesson, is no doubt that they are perfectly content to be who they are, without torturing themselves with alternatives: They love being dogs.

Unlike me, he didn’t then segue into an endless series of whys – why, if we remain so close, if we can converse so intimately, can you not be with me?

Then, having had a good cry about my being gone, he’d collect himself and get on with his life, proceeding south into the village, with head and tail erect.

Ralph was tall, affable, and handsome – Christopher Reeve as Superman – and Scout was frumpy, opinionated, and a little overweight, the canine version of Gertrude Stein.