1,791 Quotes About Dog

  • Author Temple Grandin
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    Once you can do it all after a lot training with no food reward, the dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.

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  • Author Temple Grandin
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    The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.

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  • Author Temple Grandin
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    There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.

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  • Author Temple Grandin
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    Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better than other dogs. They are a real good natured. They're also real calm and sometimes when working with autistic children that's probably more popular dog breed - now there are different ways to use service animals.

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  • Author Temple Grandin
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    There are three basic ways [to use a dog], one is just to be companion person and I'm thinking now more of autistic kids not somebody in a wheelchair or the dog belongs to a therapist and then it's used as an ice breaker to get the kid talking and get the kid interacting.

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  • Author Temple Grandin
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    I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.

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  • Author Temple Grandin
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    We breed dogs to be more social than the wolf. There is very interesting research that has been done with a wolf and a domestic dog.

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  • Author Terry Greene
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    He was a dog with tons of talent and speed but not much racing sense. He was hit or miss ... no consistency.

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