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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them’s making a poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge? – Jerry Seinfeld Free, open love I have looked upon as dog’s love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly. – Mahatma Gandhi The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that’s why he tries to bite the mailman. – Albert Einstein They will wait forever, they love you that much. – Coco Chanel 168
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PERMISSIONS Excerpt from Ordinary Dogs copyright © 2011 by Eileen Battersby, published by Faber & Faber; Excerpt from Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck, copyright © 1961, 1962 by The Curtis Publishing Co.; copyright © 1962 by John Steinbeck; copyright renewed © 1989, 1990 by Elaine Steinbeck, Thom Steinbeck, and John Steinbeck IV. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved; Excerpt from My Dog Tulip copyright © 1965 by Joe Randolph Ackerley; ‘The Dog’ by Attila József, translation copyright © 1997 by John Batki by kind permission; ‘Crimes Against Dog’ from We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For copyright © 2006 by Alice Walker; Excerpt from Animals Make Us Human reproduced by kind permission of Dr Temple Grandin; ‘The Mongrel’ by Vita Sackville-West, reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of the beneficiaries of the Estate of Vita SackvilleWest. Copyright © 1961 by Vita Sackville-West; Excerpt from Peggy & Me by Miranda Hart copyright © 2017 by Miranda Hart, reproduced by permission of Hodder and Stoughton Limited; ‘Our Long Obsession with Canine Design’ by Kathryn Hughes, copyright © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2019; ‘Dogs in Heaven’ copyright © 2019 by Father Mark Osborne, reproduced by kind permission of the author; ‘Monologue of a Dog Ensnared in History’ from MAP: Collected and Lost Poems by Wisława Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. English translation copyright © 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 169

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them’s making a poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge? – Jerry Seinfeld

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog’s love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly. – Mahatma Gandhi

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that’s why he tries to bite the mailman. – Albert Einstein

They will wait forever, they love you that much. – Coco Chanel

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